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obligation; favour; favor; debt of gratitude

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sparing a life; clemency; reconsideration of an employee's dismissal

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homework; assignment; pending issue; unresolved problem; open question

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counter for pairs of socks, shoes, etc.

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placing salt by the entrance to one's establishment to bring good luck; such piles of salt

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kabuki actor who is also a male prostitute

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place where hair is gathered together atop the head; hair tied (or pinned) together in this position

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furthermore; again; after all; more and more; moreover; even more

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room detached from main house

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early (days); initial stage; initial

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ukiyoe artist

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red and blue; paints; colors; painting; picture

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your native country; your hometown; my home country (i.e. Japan); countryside; country; (arch.) daimyo's territory (Edo period)

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kabuki; Japanese classical drama

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to draw a diagram

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folio

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tailoring; dressmaking; sewing; making; preparation

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oneself and others; (in philosophy) subject and object; transitivity; transitive and intransitive verbs; first person and third person; self-salvation and salvation by faith

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seeing; meeting

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smoke; fumes

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bamboo stem (of a Japanese pipe)

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open verandah; open veranda

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not worth mentioning (with neg. verb); nothing special

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cupboard on the floor

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thin or light silk; sheer silk; veil (mystery)

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stealth; travelling incognito (traveling); ninjutsu; ninja; sneak theft; sneak thief; tolerance

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fragment; splinter; wane (of the Moon)

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bisect; cut in two

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meanwhile; in the meantime; by the same token; in contrast

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precipitous; rugged; inaccessible; grim; severe; stern

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to wrap up

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bribe; money under the table

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forced laugh; forced smile

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hilly section of a city (usu. residential); Yamanote (hilly residential section of western Tokyo, incl. Yotsuya, Aoyama, Koishikawa, Hongo, Ichigaya, Akasaka, Azabu and surrounds); place near the mountains

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white plum blossoms; white Japanese apricot; white-blossomed plum

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direct; immediate; personal; firsthand

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(public) notice; attention; public eye; public gaze

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making a living; getting on in the world; subsistence

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losing the means of livelihood

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to think; to consider; to think (of doing); to plan (to do); to judge; to assess; to imagine

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because; the reason why is

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rational; reasonable; logical

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deed; act

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in that respect; on that point; in that regard

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to trust; to relax one's guard (around)

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caressing; loving dearly

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both hands

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to break free of

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coquetry

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merely for form's sake

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