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Ainu mouth harp

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white gooseweed (Chenopodium album); fat hen; lamb's-quarters; pigweed

6

seeming to be for a certain reason; seeming to indicate there are special circumstances; seeming to indicate there is more than meets the eye

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child's face; childlike face; boyish face; baby face

2

to close (one's eyes); to shut

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to be stormy; to be rough; to be rough (of skin); to be chapped; to be ruined; to fall into ruin

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senior priest (of a Shinto shrine, below chief priest and deputy chief priest); grasshopper; locust

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medium; diviner; shaman; oracle

5

to suffer an embarrassing defeat

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spreading around (news, rumor, etc.); making widely known; making public; publicizing; proclaiming

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to kowtow (to bow from a kneeling position such that the forehead touches the ground); to prostrate oneself; to give a deep, reverent bow

1

counter for questions

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Welsh onion (Allium fistulosum); green onion; spring onion

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passing (along the way)

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one's youth; early life; one's early days; one's early years

1

meddling; fumbling; fondling; playing around with something

1

polish (jewels); cultivation

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polish (jewels); cultivation

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merit; success; meritorious deed; achievement; accumulated experience

2

pensive (or worried) look on one's face

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to stop up; to close up; to stand in the way; to obstruct; to occupy; to fill up

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lighted lamp (or candle, etc.) provided as a religious offering

2

sakaki (species of evergreen sacred to Shinto, Cleyera japonica); evergreen (esp. one planted or used at a shrine)

2

everyday garment worn by nobles in ancient Japan; silk dried after having been washed in plain water and stretched out

2

miko; shrine maiden; young girl or woman (trad. an unmarried virgin) who assists priests at shrines; medium; sorceress; shamaness

3

how kind of you; that's very nice of you; kindly

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to pass (e.g. car); to overtake; to surpass; to outstrip; to get ahead of

1

superman; superwoman; Ubermensch (e.g. Nietzsche's ideal man of the future); overman

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self denial; self control

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making one's best exertions

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to refuse; to decline; to deny

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divine power; sacred power; mysterious power; Shinriki (variety of rice)

2

twenty-first day of the month; twenty-one days

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inscrutable; incomprehensible

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personality; style; appearance

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manifestation (of a celestial being)

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to profit; to get; to have (bear, beget) a child; to have a stroke of luck

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(I) think (that); (I) have a feeling (that); (I) fancy (that)

1

something; some kind of; for some reason

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book; volume

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to hold between (e.g. one's fingers, chopsticks); to grip (from both sides); to put between; to sandwich between; to catch (e.g. a finger in a door); to trap; to insert (e.g. a break into proceedings)

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scribbling; scrawl; hasty writing

1

several lines (of text)

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harmonious; peaceful; happy; amicable; smooth; free from trouble

1

polished mirror; clear mirror

1

violence; force

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defect; demerit; weak point; disadvantage

1

scratch; chip; flaw; fault; shame; disgrace

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poultry; fowls

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try to be; want to be

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