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best; ideal; perfect

1

answering one's own question; wondering to oneself; soliloquizing; soliloquising

1

entrance; entry; gate; approach; mouth

2

to wait and see; to see how the land lies

4

to go to see (something, someone); to visit

1

Kukedo

1

side door; side gate; wicket gate

1

guard; watchman

4

to bind up; to tie up

3

key; lock; key (to a problem); clue

11

to cross over (e.g. mountain); to go across; to get over (e.g. hardship); to pass time (e.g. a winter); to surpass; to be better than; to move house

3

ladder; stairs; going to several places in succession (e.g. barhopping)

11

to lean against; to set against

1

to set a ladder up against

1

exterior; outside; outer; external; lateral

1

to make sure of; to ascertain; to confirm; to grasp

1

striking on the side; side blow; slanting (rain, snow, etc.); driving

1

brightness of snow; reflected light of snow; (by) snow light

1

jūbako; multi-tiered food box; heavy; serious; extreme; -fold

1

hoof

2

in order; in turn; one by one

1

second; number two; runner-up

1

number; series of digits

1

double doors opening from the centre; double-opening from the centre (e.g. doors, casement windows, etc.); method of filleting fish, chicken, etc. with a central cut and peeling back the flesh

5

gravesite; tomb

1

finger; hands and fingers; hands

1

toe

1

indicates position in a sequence; divisions of a kabuki performance

1

to lie face-down

1

to distribute; to hand out; to deliver; to allot; to allocate; to place (staff, soldiers, etc.)

2

one place; the same place; (arch.) one person

3

to sing; to sing (one's praises in a poem, etc.); to compose a poem; to recite a poem

13

to become fraught with emotion

1

wind and snow; snowstorm; blizzard; hardships

2

noh chanting; recitation

9

sitting upright (properly)

1

soon; shortly; before long; nearly; almost

4

to well up (of tears, anger, joy, etc.); to surge up (within oneself); to rise; to feel nauseated; to feel sick

1

fighting spirit; (will to) fight

3

interior; inside; internal

4

to flare up; to burst into flames

6

small window; fenestella; scuttle (type of hatch on a ship)

1

(on a) closer look; closer scrutiny; second look

1

to leak out; to escape; to find expression; to give vent; to leak out; to be divulged

1

doorway; door; hatch

1

door; gate; opening; title page

2

inside; interior; inner part

1

ascent; climbing; up-train; train heading toward the starting point of its route; upbound (esp. toward Tokyo); upstream

2

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

2

to pull open

1