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sweet (e.g. young girls, flowers blooming); touchingly lovely; cute; pitiful; pitiable

5

peerless; unparalleled; unparallelled; mowing down the enemy

1

front and rear; front and back; before and after; around; about; order; context

3

metal

2

to give up on; to turn one's back (on); to abandon; to forsake; to dump (e.g. romantic partner)

1

work after one's heart

1

to meet fortuitously (e.g. running into an old friend); to meet by chance; to happen across

1

same kind (race); homogeneousness

2

being outstanding; excelling; being foremost

1

limits; boundary; domain; area (e.g. in programming languages)

3

Owari (former province located in the west of present-day Aichi Prefecture)

2

to understand; to comprehend; to become clear; to be known; I know!; I think so too!

1

Japanese apricot (Prunus mume); Japanese plum; ume; lowest (of a three-tier ranking system)

1

Japanese bush warbler (Horornis diphone); Japanese nightingale; greenish brown; having a beautiful voice

2

pair

1

animal

1

both

1

relief (carving)

2

colouring; coloring; colouration; coloration; painting

1

make-up; makeup; cosmetics

2

general rule

5

to turn yellow; to become tinged with yellow; to yellow (with age)

1

to be due to; to be caused by; to depend on; to turn on; to be based on; to come from

1

literature; books (reference); document

2

serious error; gross mistake

1

temple elementary school (during the Edo period)

3

to wear out (something)

3

largehearted; frank; unaffected

1

remembering; recollection; recall; to remember; to recall; to recollect

2

innocent; simple-minded

2

fierce tiger; ferocious tiger; Hanshin Tigers (baseball team)

1

tail (animal, kite, comet, etc.); tail end; slope at the foot of a mountain

2

origin; beginning; variable measure of fabric (28.8 cm in width); for kimonos: at least 10 m in length; tip; extremity

1

forefoot; forefeet; foreleg; forelimb

1

to be lucky; to be in luck; to be attached; to have; to be included

1

to be imminent; to loom; to be approaching; to be impending

1

male (animal, plant)

2

side; edge; beside; while (doing); in addition to; at the same time

1

firmly rooted; deep-seated

1

occasion; time; section (of a literary work); paragraph; season; term; principle

2

to hang; to droop; to give (e.g. lesson, instruction, scolding) (to someone of lower status); to confer; to drip; to ooze; to leave behind (at death)

1

coupled with; together

3

to become (a state, condition, etc.)

1

to expand; to swell (out); to get big; to become inflated

1

sword (esp. Japanese single-edged); katana; scalpel; chisel; burin; knife money (knife-shaped commodity money used in ancient China)

4

wide-width (e.g. cloth); broad

1

composition

2

on the desk; theoretical; academic; armchair (e.g. plan)

2

to comfort; to console; to amuse

1

roughly woven fence

1