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cinnabar; vermillion; red pigment (and ink made from same); red text (as used to correct documents)

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blue; azure; green; green light (traffic); black (horse coat color); blue 5-point card; immature

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in general; generally; as a whole; all in all; altogether

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place name; toponym

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Bengal

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change; transformation; inversion

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visit (from abroad); introduction (from abroad); importation

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Naha (city in Okinawa)

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Muromachi period (1333-1573)

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(arch.) southern barbarians (formerly used by the Chinese to refer to non-ethnic Chinese to the south); (arch.) South-East Asia; (arch.) Western Europe (esp. Spain and Portugal, their South-East Asian colonies, and their goods and people arriving in Japan via the colonies); exotic (esp. Western European or South-East Asian style); (in dance, puppetry, etc.) thrusting the right foot and right arm forward at the same time (or left foot and left arm); nanban; dish prepared using chili peppers and Welsh onions

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trade (foreign)

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agency; intermediation

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cotton print; calico

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foreign; imported; outpatient; outpatient care; outpatient clinic

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original; unique; distinctive; independent; one's own; personal

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(metropolitan) prefecture (of Osaka and Kyoto); the centre or seat (of) (center); (government) office; fu; historical administrative unit in China, Korea and Vietnam

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Japanese league; ri; neighbourhood (under the ritsuryo system; orig. of 50 homes); unit of area (approx. 654m by 654m)

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multilayered; doubled

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island group; archipelago

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dying; death; dead; useless; damned

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strong person; person putting on a brave front; bamboo tube with holes drilled in it (used as a stand for kitchen utensils, fans, etc.); checks; plaid

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paper

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souvenir

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votive picture (originally of horse)

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distemper painting; painting made with gold or silver paint (usu. on a dark background)

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mud; slush; (wet) dirt; thief

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to appear; to reveal; to show

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work; labor; labour; toil

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forked road

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hey!; oi!; ahoy!; I; me

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Ōtsu (city in Shiga)

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highway (esp. one existing from the Edo period); main road; highway (e.g. to success); path (to becoming ...); subdistrict (in China)

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common saying; popular version; folklore; tradition

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to fall into someone's hands; to pass into another's possession

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Genroku era (1688.9.30-1704.3.13)

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far away; distant place; long ago; far back; by far

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Kan'ei era (1624.2.30-1644.12.16)

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Kanji to English (dictionary)

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Buddhist picture

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hidden meaning; symbolism; moral

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rock (in rock-paper-scissors); stone; ungh; gulp; rumbling (of an empty stomach); growling

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special kind

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ogre; demon; spirit of a deceased person; ogre-like person (i.e. fierce, relentless, merciless, etc.); it (in a game of tag, hide-and-seek, etc.); Chinese "ghost" constellation (one of the 28 mansions); very

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spear; lance; javelin; lance; (arch.) jeering

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draw (in go, poetry contest, etc.); tie

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fellow; guy; thing; object; he; she

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to do; to undertake; to send; to dispatch; to put; to move; to give (esp. to someone of equal or lower status)

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having; holding; wear; durability; charge; expense

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servant (esp. a samurai's attendant); chivalrous man (Edo period); cubed tofu (often served cold); kite shaped like an Edo-period footman; Edo-period hairstyle worn by samurai's attendants; enslavement (of a woman; Edo-period punishment for her own or her husband's crime); (arch.) he

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shamisen; samisen; three-stringed Japanese lute

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