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to bear fruit

to have a child

to bear fruit; to produce a crop

bunches (e.g. of fruit); clusters; crammed (e.g. with people); overflowing

with no blood relation

fruit grown near the tip of the vine (hence stunted and unripe); weak-looking fellow; pale-faced man; pasty-faced man

farm products; harvest; crop; fruit; berries; fruit tree

bearing (fruit)

to grow in clusters

bottle gourd; ensign bearing a cluster of gourds (used by Toyotomi Hideyoshi)

fruit grown near the root

year of large crop

great collection (of things); cluster; bunch; bottle gourd

traditional Koshogatsu ceremony where one person beats a fruit tree (usu. persimmon tree) with a pole while threatening to cut it down if it does not provide a plentiful harvest, with another person responding "I will, I will" for the tree

like begets like; the apple doesn't fall far from the tree; (lit.) eggplants don't grow on gourd vines

first fruits