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inshore hagfish (Eptatretus burgeri, species found from Japan to Taiwan)

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sweet (pleasant) dreams

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En'ou

18

poor peasant or farmer

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person of refined tastes; sophisticated person; man of the world; understanding person; man about town

1

good for nothing (of large people); big but useless

1

dirt-poor farmer

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Yayoi

1

chamber (of a revolver)

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Gen'emon

4

customer at a brothel; john; someone who has forgotten the eight virtues; brothel; owner of a brothel

3

summarization; summarisation; epitome

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to rust; to become rusty

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fatty constitution

2

(rocky) beach; seashore

51

to be uniform (in size and quality); to be uniformly good

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Kanmu Heishi

2

(behaving with) patience and prudence; putting up with something

1

Yuuki

1

beast in human form

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false charge

1

ruins; wreckage; wreck; broken remains; debris

1

earthquake disaster; Great Kanto Earthquake (1923)

1

low-ranking samurai; rolling three and one (in a dice game)

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gate with a crossbar

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to spit in the wind; to piss in the wind; to get caught in your own trap; to reap what you sow; (lit.) to turn to the sky and spit

1

heaven, earth and man

1

slouch; lazybones

1

dry provisions; dried food; dried goods; groceries

1

don't you ever come here again!; (lit.) come here the day before yesterday

1

success on the first try (attempt)

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worthless (of a person); somebody who wouldn't be missed if they died

1

to seethe; to ferment; to boil over

1

mist; fog

1

enshrinement; installation (of an image)

1

prize beyond one's reach; unattainable object; woman who is out of one's league; (lit.) flower on a high peak

1

to make even; to make smooth; to make level; to average

2

last stand; last bastion; last stronghold; last frontier

1

heavy turnover (trading)

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earthenware baking pan; parching pan

1

mysteries of one's master's art; robes and a bowl (monk's key possessions auctioned off at his funeral); (fig.) transmission of the dharma from master to disciple (in Zen)

1

conch (esp. Charonia tritonis); trumpet shell

1

red-light district

3

woman's looks; woman's charm

1

kabukimono; Edo-period samurai who attracted public attention with their eye-catching clothes, peculiar hairstyle, and eccentric behavior

3

(women's) refuge

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ronin; masterless samurai; high school graduate waiting for another chance to enter university after having failed the yearly entrance examination; person out of work; jobless person; (arch.) wanderer

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even though one has fallen on hard times; however down on one's luck one may be

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temptress; flirt; minx; murder of a man; murderer of a man

2

impossible dream

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