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to be overwhelmed; to be overawed

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oh!; dear me; my goodness; well well; I say

2

to devise; to plot; to plan

1

formal; stiff; strict; ceremonious

1

gate to the garden of a tea ceremony house

1

white; innocence; innocent person; blank space; white stone; white dragon tile; skewered grilled pig intestine

1

azalea; rhododendron

1

postscript (to a book); verification; publication (in a book)

1

directly; in person; firsthand

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one layer; single layer; monopetalous; unlined kimono; single-edged eyelid; eyelid with an epicanthic fold

2

adjoining each other; next to each other; being in close proximity to something; being constantly exposed to (danger, etc.)

1

dear (old); fondly remembered; beloved; missed; nostalgic

1

drawing room; study; writing alcove; publishing house

3

one house; the same house

1

your wife; his wife; secret meeting; secrecy

10

oh my god!; oh my gosh!; you got me!; wow!

1

(major) mark; level; barrier; 100-yen unit (stock market)

1

government official

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kitchen knife; (arch.) cooking; (arch.) food

3

(arch.) female slave; female servant; housemaid

1

sluggishly; slowly; ploddingly; stolidly (standing); impassively

1

making; forming; cultivating; form; appearance

2

dirt floor; room with dirt floor; pit (theater seating); parterre

2

one's wife

1

overly familiar; overfamiliar; too friendly; too free; cheeky

1

Mr; Mrs; Miss; politeness marker

1

to step back; to walk backwards

2

tidying up; finishing

1

to be busy at work; to work diligently

2

tucking up the sleeves of a kimono with a tasuki

2

description; expression (in words); qualification (e.g. of a noun with an adjective); form; figure; appearance

1

to keep standing; to stand motionless

1

don't you think?; indicates question

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cord used to tuck up the sleeves of a kimono; sash (worn over the shoulder to the opposite hip); obi (strip of paper looped around a book, CD, etc. containing information about the product)

2

board; plank; sheet (of metal); plate (of glass); cutting board; chopping board

1

bed; bedding; sickbed; alcove; riverbed; seedbed; straw "core" of a tatami mat

1

to lower; to be lowered

1

easy; simple; ready; casual; off-hand; easy-going

1

door frame; window frame; frame sections of the door or window that provide most of its structural integrity

1

adult; grown-up; becoming an adult; coming of age; growing up (to be a man, woman)

1

delusion; illusion; infatuation; bewilderment; perplexity

1

to reel; to wind; to turn (pages); to flip through (a book); to count (e.g. the days); to open one-by-one

1

great success; happy result; good result

1

origin; beginning; variable measure of fabric (28.8 cm in width); for kimonos: at least 10 m in length; tip; extremity

2

poor; lame; ill-prepared

1

cold rice; hanger-on; dependent; disgraced former actor

3

bowl (of rice); pair (of chopsticks)

2

tea-ceremony arbor; tea-ceremony arbour

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a family; a household; (one's own) style; school; gang; (yakuza) family

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short break; breather; brief recess; rest

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