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wit and intelligence

1

success in life; getting ahead; successful career; promotion; climbing the corporate ladder; eminence

4

abusive language; violent language; wild words

1

ability; gift; talent; sai; traditional unit of volume, approx. 1.8 ml

2

hairpin

4

to disappear; to vanish; to go; to leave; to die

2

(small) knife; short sword; small sword

1

knife attached to the sheath of a sword

1

inro; seal case; pill box; medicine case

4

loss; going missing

1

deed (esp. negative); act; action; one's doing

2

interval; break; pause; gap (e.g. in the clouds); rift; cleft

2

open; public; official; overt

1

to shoot (at); to attack; to defeat; to destroy

3

destination; place one stays during a trip

1

liver; innards; courage; spirit; crux; essential point

4

to stamp; to engrave; to inscribe

1

to kneel and worship

1

back gate

2

deep emotion; impression; inspiration

2

to reward; to recompense; to repay; to retaliate; to get revenge

1

cruel; inhumane; callous; brutal

2

one share; one amount

1

nembutsu; nenbutsu; nianfo; visualizing a Buddha (in one's mind)

3

homeless; family in mourning

1

job; work; duties; trade; skill

5

river water; stream

2

full of; brimming with

2

human habitation

1

somehow or other; for some reason or another; without knowing why

2

hint; suggestion

1

to imitate; to copy; to mock; to trace; to forge

1

Japanese beech (Fagus crenata); Siebold's beech

2

the second time

1

off duty

1

service; duty; business; Buddhist religious services

2

boss (esp. yakuza); foreman

1

hands and feet

1

hedge

1

trifoliate orange (Poncirus trifoliata); hardy orange

1

Japanese bindweed (Calystegia japonica)

1

bowstring; string (of shamisen, guitar, violin, etc.); bail (arched pot handle); diagonal levelling wire across the top of a masu

1

over the fence (e.g. looking, conducting a conversation); back-fence

1

engawa; external corridor on the outer side of traditional Japanese houses; bone at the base of a fin; meat at the base of a fin (esp. of a flatfish)

1

ghost; specter; spectre; apparition; phantom

1

to open (e.g. doors); to open (e.g. business, etc.); to be empty; to be vacant; to be available; to be open (e.g. neckline, etc.); to have been opened (of one's eyes, mouth, etc.)

1

to turn over (in one's sleep); to toss and turn (in bed); to change sides; to double-cross; to betray

1

reserve; constraint; declining; refraining; forethought; foresight

4

to hate; to dislike

2

shopping; purchased goods

1