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stupidity; dull person; dullness

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just; justifiable; right; due; proper; equitable

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difficulty of finding employment (due to a job shortage)

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power; authority; influence

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soon; before long; shortly; close (by); near; nearby

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service; duty; work

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prefecture (of Japan); county (of China, Taiwan, Norway, etc.); department (of France); province (of Italy, Spain, etc.)

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district; county; district (of 2-20 50-home neighbourhoods or townships, in the ritsuryō period); commandery (in China)

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looks; features; (personal) appearance

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average (ability, looks, etc.); ordinary; normal; run-of-the-mill

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city

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girls' high school (pre-WWII)

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halfway; unfinished

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dropping out of school; withdrawal from school; expulsion from school; dismissal; leaving school (university, etc.) after completing a course

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at present; now

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apprenticeship in the running of a household; prospective bride who undertakes an apprenticeship to learn housekeeping

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stepmother

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agreement (e.g. business, dispute); understanding; compromise; relationship; relation; (good, bad, etc.) terms

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best regards; please take care of; please do

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disclosure; exposure; revelation

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talented man and a beautiful woman; well-matched pair; wit and beauty

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machiya; traditional wooden townhouse; tradesman's house (esp. a home with a shop in front); merchant's house; merchant's family

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farmer; peasant; farming; country bumpkin; yokel; the common people

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appropriately; properly

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to manage; to arrange; to see to (a matter); to consult (with); to talk (to)

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Seitarō

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commercial college; college of commerce

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paymaster; accountant

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special Nara-period administrative division for areas containing a detached palace (Yoshino and Izumi); secretary; third highest-ranking officials in the Dazaifu

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your nephew

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Hideko

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one's origin (e.g. city, country, parentage, school)

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literary woman; talented woman

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veterinary medicine

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Karasumori

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your niece

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to search for; to look for; to hunt for; to search (a house, pocket, etc.); to search through; to rummage in (e.g. a drawer)

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evident; plain; distinct; clear

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niece

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festivities; celebration; wedding; marriage ceremony

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to work as the backbone (of); to bear responsibility (for); to be the mainstay (of); to be the central part (of)

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unsung hero; person who does a thankless task

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to bear responsibility for; to be liable for; to answer for; to take the blame for

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illustration appearing in the first pages of a publication; frontispiece

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in front of your nose; right next to you; tip of one's nose

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careless; thoughtless; stupid; heedless; unobservant; inadvertent

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talented man; clever man

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(female) beauty; beautiful woman

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one (esp. of two); the other; on the one hand; on the other hand; whereas; although

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neither one thing nor the other; (lit.) too short for a belt, too long for a sleeve tie

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