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to be quiet (due to lack of activity); to be in a slump (of a business)

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customer; client; client company; business connection; trade partner

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payment

2

to get burned and stuck on (e.g. rice in a pan); to become uncollectable (e.g. debt or loan); to become irrecoverable; to remain unchanged (e.g. stock market)

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night flight (without paying); skipping out by night; moonlight flit

2

relations with women

2

when it comes to ...; where ... is concerned; if it's the case that ...; if it turns out that ...; if it's true that ...

1

elopement; running away with a lover

3

poor; pitiable; pathetic; pitiful

2

to burn; to scorch; to char; to singe

2

café; cafe; coffeehouse; hostess bar (serving western alcoholic beverages; Taisho and Showa period)

6

chain store

2

townhouse (i.e. house in the middle of a town); traditional townhouse; tradesman's house (esp. a home with a shop in front); merchant's house; merchant's family

3

remodeling; remodelling; restructuring; modding

1

stealing a march on; getting a head start; secretly acting before others; solo raid on an enemy's camp (for glory)

1

local specialty or souvenir bought as a gift while travelling; present brought by a visitor; something unpleasant that one is given (e.g. an illness while on vacation); unwelcome gift

1

Japanese horse chestnut (Aesculus turbinata)

1

having; holding; wear; durability; charge; expense

1

rice cakes; pounded mochi rice

2

visit (to a shrine, grave, etc.); worship

3

purpose; goal; aim; objective; intention

3

opportunity; occasion; (arch.) order; (arch.) sequence; (arch.) successor

1

men and women; man and woman; both sexes; both genders

1

miraculous efficacy; miracle; miraculous virtue

1

miraculous; wonder-working; magical

1

peace; tranquility; tranquillity; Heian period (794-1185)

1

poet (of tanka poems)

1

Izumi Shikibu (Poet of the Heian period, included in the Ogura Hyakunin Isshu)

2

great god; gracious deity; miracle-working god

1

prayer (for something); supplication

2

to get back together (with a former partner)

1

look, look!

3

to cling to; to hang onto; to rely on; to depend on; to implore; to entreat

1

oracle

1

to be awarded (e.g. a prize); to be given an award; to be gifted or endowed (e.g. with a talent); to be blessed (e.g. with a child); to be initiated (e.g. into a secret)

1

good luck to come (omikuji fortune-telling result); future good luck

1

excellent luck

1

love; love-making; passion; emotion; affections

1

precisely; exactly; plumb; damn; stupid; cursed

2

element (esp. component in electronics); elemental device; device; data; datum

1

good match; suitable candidate (for marriage); good opportunity to be saved by Buddha

1

nursing; care; caregiving; caring

1

second anniversary of a death

1

to finish; to end; to merely result in something less severe than expected; to feel at ease; to feel unease or guilt for troubling someone; to be sorry

5

searching for a marriage partner; marriage hunting; activities leading to marriage (e.g. dating, courtship)

2

to set out; to set sail; to embark on (a new venture); to set out (to achieve something); to begin to ride; to lean forward

1

incidentally; taking the opportunity; while (you) are at it; on the occasion

1

jest; joke; funny story

2

table

3

to laugh; to smile; to sneer; to ridicule; to be dumbfounded; to be flabbergasted

1