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Japan's best; number one in Japan

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ranked list (entertainers, sumo wrestlers, millionaires, etc.); program (e.g. theatre)

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leader; reader; reading book; reader (i.e. someone who reads); microreader; dotted line (in printing)

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land near a castle; castle town

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eel restaurant

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return present; return gift; something done in return (as way of thanks); retaliation; revenge

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management; administration; operation; running (business); conducting

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to invite; to ask; to beckon; to wave someone in; to call in; to send for

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poetry party or competition; gathering of tanka poets

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selection and commentary (on literary texts or poems)

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to serve (in a bowl, on a plate, etc.); to dish out; to pile up; to heap up; to administer (medicine, poison); to dose out; to put into (e.g. information in a report, meaning in a statement)

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thick; viscous; muddy; dirty (with oil, grease, etc.); to be in an ugly state (of emotions, relations, etc.); to be murky

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(animal) feed; fodder; pet food; bait; lure; enticement

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spoon

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to stir; to churn; to rummage around; to throw into confusion; to throw into chaos

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to ingest; to eat; to enter the mouth; to be able to eat

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delicacy; dainties

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to incline one's head

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silent; mute; dumb

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rice and curry; curry rice

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horsemeat

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producing area

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surely

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other prefectures

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illegal; unlawful

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strict prohibition; ban; interdiction

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encouragement; promotion; inducement; incitement; stimulation

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outward appearance; ostensible; public; official

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ban; prohibition; interdiction; injunction

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incarnation (of Buddha or bodhisattva); avatar; embodiment (as in "embodiment of evil"); incarnation; personification

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food expense

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small dish (usu. one of several accompanying rice); side dish; fill; fill-in (drumming); jack-off material; something to masturbate to

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storm trooper; Brownshirt

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darkness; the dark; bewilderment; despair; hidden place; secrecy

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butcher's shop; butcher; meat shop

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street at night; making a night journey

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shoji with an oil-treated screen (for increased water resistance)

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kindling; small bits of scrap wood used to fuel a stove

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light; illumination; glow; lamp; light

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swaying; swinging; rocking; shaking; wavering; flickering

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to shake; to sway; to waver

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route; road; distance travelled in a day; one's ... (age, e.g. 40s, 60s)

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along

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imaginary; fantastical; visionary; utopian; quixotic; fanciful

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adventure story; novel of adventure

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den of vice; rogue's den; brothel; red-light district; cluttered room

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bizarre; strange; weird; grotesque

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blood; blood; ancestry; (the) blood; feelings

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to drip; to drop; to trickle; to overflow (with freshness, beauty, etc.)

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fresh meat

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