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to return; to come home; to leave; to get home; to get to home plate

12

young child; toddler; child over 1 but not yet of school age

1

gradually (progress into a state); in sequence; in order; in turn

1

every year; yearly; annually

1

Passover; Pesach; Easter

10

festival; feast; harassment by an Internet pitchfork mob; online shaming; galore (as in "goals galore"); frenzy

7

Passover

3

Promised Land

1

to turn towards; to point

1

start; commencement; beginning; initiation

4

national holiday; festival day

1

the whole country

3

visit to a shrine or temple; paying homage at a shrine or temple

1

custom; practice; convention; precedent

3

proceeding to the capital (Tokyo)

2

to head home; to leave for home

1

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

1

to be (of animate objects); to exist; to stay; to be ...-ing; to have been ...-ing

2

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

1

one portion; one serving; adult; grown-up; fully fledged; established

1

man; male; fellow; guy; male lover; boyfriend

2

male coming-of-age-ceremony; shaving one's eyebrows, blackening one's teeth, and wearing one's hair in the marumage style (of a newly married woman; Edo period)

1

this for sure; certainly is

3

or rather (say); or better (say); or perhaps I should say; or, how should I put it,...; I mean

2

thus; in this way

2

height; stature; length (esp. of clothing); all (one has); everything; magnificence (of a waka poem, etc.)

1

to increase; to grow

1

adult (esp. person 20 years old or over); grownup; becoming an adult; coming of age; growing up (to be a man, woman)

1

to sever; to cut off; to suppress; to eradicate; to abstain (from); to give up

1

perhaps; probably; generous; many; much

1

succession; successor

2

indicates two contrasting actions; (arch.) indicates possessive (often found in place names and compound words)

2

mother

5

younger brother and sister

1

to stop (moving); to come to a stop; to stop (doing, working, being supplied); to come to a halt; to alight; to perch on

2

(period of) a year; during an era

1

silence; being silent; quiet; reticence; inaction

2

public life; public career

3

memorization; memorisation; learning by heart

1

to seize; to catch; to obtain; to acquire; to understand; to grasp

1

to pile up; to stack; to load (car, ship, etc.); to pack; to acquire; to accumulate

1

allegory; fable; parable

5

things; affairs

1

to fly in the air

1

one (bird)

1

to bloom; to flower; to blossom; to open

1

one stem

1

nature observation

1

manual labor; manual labour; toil; Labour Party

6

dead

2