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paper lantern; Chinese lantern; Japanese lantern

2

temple bell; hanging bell; funeral bell

2

(person) slippery as an eel

2

begging Zen priest of the Fuke sect (wearing a sedge hood and playing a shakuhachi flute)

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young man (in the Edo period, esp. one with forelocks who has not yet had his coming-of-age ceremony); young male prostitute; young kabuki actor (who may also act as a homosexual prostitute); younger partner in a homosexual relationship

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eagle (Accipitridae family)

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Japanese calligraphy paper (approx. 25cm by 35cm)

2

lesson; precept; teachings; moral

1

waka; classic Japanese poem, esp. a tanka, often 31 morae

1

caricature; cartoon; comics

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red earth (i.e. containing cinnabar or minium); vermilion

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Saturday; earth; dirt; land; lands; earth (third of the five elements)

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udo (plant related to ginseng, used in medicine and cooking) (Aralia cordata)

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artists' chalk; white pigment; powdered calcium carbonate

1

five minutes

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money; metal

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considerably; not a little; in no small numbers

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dark gray; dark grey; slate (color, colour)

2

axis; shaft; center; centre; stalk; stem

1

conjunctive particle indicating a cause or reason

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Aesop's Fables

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fox (esp. the red fox, Vulpes vulpes); fox (i.e. a sly person); soba or udon topped with deep-fried tofu; light brown; golden brown

2

four years

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printing; publishing

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old; aged; long; since long ago; of the distant past; long-ago

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imperfect; incomplete; faulty; defective

1

great (i.e. great-grandson, great-grandmother)

2

(rocky) beach; seashore

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with a bang (clash, bump)

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secondhand book; ancient book; antiquarian books

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sad to say; how sad; alas

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year; age; years; past one's prime; old age

1

period; Nihon-shoki

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addition; adding; supplement

2

is that so? (generally rhetorical)

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exemplum; apologue

1

flour; meal; powder; dust

5

to brace one's legs; to stand firm; to plant one's feet (firmly on the ground); to hold out; to persist; to make an effort

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boy; kid; child

2

counter for horsemen

2

cattle (Bos taurus); cow; beef; Chinese "Ox" constellation (one of the 28 mansions)

2

soon; in a moment; nearby; close; direct; spot transaction

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squeezing something tightly; sound made by someone (or something) being squeezed; criticizing someone severely; sound made by someone being criticized; hug

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3 Japanese feet; waistband; belt; cloth girdle

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practice writing with a brush; study; learning

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white powder (lead carbonate) used in the past as face pigment and used in paint more recently

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round burial mound

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wild sesame (Perilla frutescens var. frutescens); oilseed perilla; egoma

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glue (usu. from animal and fish bone, skin, etc.)

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to mix; to stir; to blend

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