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soy sauce; shoyu

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letter (of alphabet); character; writing

2

Japanese zelkova (species of elm-like tree, Zelkowa serrata)

2

end (of a street, hallway, etc.)

2

name of store; trade name (esp. of a sole proprietorship); stage name (e.g. of actor)

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to dye fast; to leave undyed

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navy blue; deep blue

3

keenly; deeply; calmly; quietly; fixedly (e.g. gazing, staring)

2

to suck up; to absorb; to squeeze (money)

1

to wind; to coil; to envelope; to shroud; to outflank; to skirt

1

bleaching; bleached cotton; doxxing; doxing; public humiliation (as an Edo period punishment)

1

gloss; luster; mellowness (of a voice); youthfulness (e.g. of skin); interest; appeal

3

pleasantly (warm); faintly; lightly; suddenly; unexpectedly; accidentally

1

astringency; tartness; austere elegance; elegant simplicity; subdued style

1

to watch steadily; to stare

1

to be rested; to feel at ease; to repose; to be relieved

1

total darkness; pitch dark; bleak future; poor prospects

1

behind one's back

1

remaining an idle spectator; looking on unconcernedly (doing nothing)

1

thin-culmed dwarf bamboo (growing in clusters); Japanese transverse bamboo flute (high-pitched; usu. with seven holes); sliver (strand of loose fibers)

1

bang; bam; noontime signal gun (carried out early Meiji to Taishō); noon gun; last round in a game of 12 rounds; precisely

1

mud; slush; (wet) dirt; thief

1

Awa (former province located in present-day Tokushima Prefecture)

3

Juurobee

1

crane (any bird of the family Gruidae, esp. the red-crowned crane, Grus japonensis)

1

century; hundred years; (fig.) a long time

1

day of spring; spring sun

1

lunch package

1

road; path; route; way; distance; journey; road (e.g. to victory)

2

to go to and from (a place); to go back and forth between; to go to (school, work, etc.); to attend; to circulate (e.g. blood, electricity); to be communicated (e.g. thought)

2

to slip out; to sneak away; to break into the lead; to get ahead; to begin to fall out (e.g. hair); to break out (of a loop)

1

phantom; vision; illusion

1

eleven; 11; jack (playing card); Hodgson's hawk-cuckoo (Cuculus fugax); Horsfield's hawk cuckoo

1

Japanese puppet theatre in which recited narrative and dialog is accompanied by a shamisen (forerunner of bunraku)

1

clothes (esp. Western clothes); counter for doses of medicine, gulps of tea, drags of a cigarette, etc.

4

side (esp. of a waterbody); edge; bank; shore

1

city

1

village

14

layman (esp. as opposed to a Buddhist monk); laity; local manners; modern customs; common; popular

2

to take up one's residence

1

court noble; nobility; three lords and nine ministers (of the ancient Chinese government)

2

court noble; nobility; Imperial Court

1

existing (at the present moment); alright; acceptable; to be (usu. of inanimate objects); to have

1

amusement; diversion (to pass time); pastime; recreation

1

puppet; marionette; puppeteer; (arch.) prostitute

2

beginning; start; first (in line, etc.); origin; such as ...; not to mention ...

1

(school) period; period or division of time; time limit

1

unmarried woman; Miss; -ess; -ette

1

descendant; posterity; offspring

1

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

1