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the head; the foremost; beginning; the very front

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brightness; discernment; insight; eyesight; vision; nth year in the Meiji era (1868.9.8-1912.7.30)

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blindness

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navy blue; deep blue

2

wrapping cloth; cloth wrapper

2

yurt

4

famous; fame

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blind female beggar who sings or plays shamisen

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I can tell you; heh

1

harvest; crop; ingathering; fruits (of one's labors); gain; result

1

slack season for farmers; leisure season for farmers

1

to peep (through); to peek; to await (one's chance); to guess; to infer

2

earnings

1

if it's the case

2

three-stringed guitar

2

hah (derisively); pooh; pfft (of something disappearing); poof; huff; puff

1

a certain ...

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to think of; to hit upon; to come into one's mind; to remember; to recall

4

secret; private; surreptitious

6

as is; as it is; as things are; like this; this way; at this rate

1

companion

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goodness; excellence; virtue

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to notice; to become aware; to be scrupulous; to be attentive; to recover consciousness; to come to oneself

2

in groups of twos and threes; in small groups

1

to strum (an instrument); to thrum; to pluck

1

certainly; really; truly; possibly; maybe; perhaps

1

unforgettable; memorable

1

memory; recollection; remembrance; storage

5

regrettable; reluctant

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one sheet; one page; one block of tofu; one serving (in a restaurant); one long and narrow thing (e.g. guns, scissors, spades, hoes, inksticks, palanquins, candles, jinrikishas, shamisen, oars, etc.); one chō (unit of distance, 109.09 m); one game

1

other than; excluding; without

2

sunny place; in the sun

2

to be or lie just outside of

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bamboo grass; generally smaller species of running bamboo that do not shed their sheaths (e.g. Sasa spp.)

2

lunch; midday meal; food served at a tea party (tea ceremony)

3

slanting; tilted; sloping; distorted (feeling); slanted (e.g. view of the world); bad (mood)

3

one's nature; one's destiny; custom; tradition; habit

2

raw; uncooked; natural; as it is; unprotected (sex); live (i.e. not recorded); inexperienced

6

indicates position in a sequence; divisions of a kabuki performance

1

middle; centre; center; midpoint; heart

3

the place for; the time for; the level of

3

large staple driven into two pieces of wood to hold them together; clamp; cramp (metal); tie (metaphorical, e.g. something that binds two people together)

2

twenty-five

1

railing; guard rail; (arch.) (shining) brightly (of the moon or stars); (arch.) (flowing) endlessly (of tears)

4

to lean on; to rest against

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both banks (of a river)

4

walk; walking; (arch.) foot messenger (of a town, village, etc.)

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evening; night; dinner; evening meal; counter for nights

3

lack of sleep

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to decide to; to pretend that; to make a practice of doing; to make it a rule to

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