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like this; in this way; as you see

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photographer

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to sit (down)

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to surround; to encircle; to enclose

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to sit; to squat; to assume (a position); to hold steady; to hold still

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four people

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to pollute; to contaminate; to soil; to disgrace; to dishonour; to dishonor

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(table) napkin; serviette; sanitary napkin; sanitary pad

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to spread; to extend; to unfold; to open; to scatter about; to spread around

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bulky; massive; thick; heavy

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lips

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flesh; meat; flesh (of a fruit); pulp; the physical body (as opposed to the spirit); flesh; thickness

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character (esp. kanji); letter; handwriting; penmanship; the ... word (e.g. "the L word" = "love")

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cooked rice; meal; food; one's living; livelihood

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lump; mass; group; crowd; embodiment (of an idea, quality, feeling etc.); personification

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oral cavity; mouth

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so and so; such and such

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to send in

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tea drinking

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rice bowl; tea cup; teacup

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bay; gulf; inlet

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soot

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you

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what kind of; what sort of; what; how; in what way

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expresses incredulousness, disbelief, irony, etc.

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to become hungry

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war; battle; campaign; (arch.) troops; (arch.) forces

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to dance; to perform a dance

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to stick; to paste; to stretch; to spread; to form (e.g. ice on a pond); to fill; to swell

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is that so? (generally rhetorical)

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this person

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lunch; midday meal

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well

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ahem

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to drink; to gulp; to smoke (tobacco); to engulf; to overwhelm; to keep down; to suppress

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unsteadily (e.g. on one's feet); shakily; wavering (in one's mind); unsteadily; aimlessly; unconsciously

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goes before a verb to strengthen its meaning or to add emphasis

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concealment (of one's vices); veil; cover; overturning; toppling

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change; alteration; substitute; rate of exchange

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Japanese puppet theatre (theater); bunraku

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high-ranking noh actor; head of a school of noh performance; high ranking courtesan (esp. in Yoshiwara) (Edo-period); jōruri narrator; manzai narrator; female role actor in kabuki; low ranking priest in a Shinto shrine

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to talk about; to speak of; to recite; to chant; to indicate; to show

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gidayū (type of reciting used in the puppet theater)

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lipstick

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to touch; to feel; to get involved (with); to approach; to be harmful to; to hinder

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repeatedly; several times; many times

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to take; to carry (something) away; to bear

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goldfish (Carassius auratus)

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wheat gluten (usu. steamed or baked)

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cormorant (Phalacrocoracidae spp.)

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