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Suzuki Ami

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Yonezawa beef

2

cucumber sushi wrapped in nori (seaweed); cucumber makizushi

1

pressure; encouragement; urging; promoting

1

mustang

1

headline

2

giant clam (any clam of subfamily Tridacnidae); giant clam shell

1

century egg; thousand-year old egg; hundred-year old egg; preserved egg (Chinese delicacy)

1

cloud ear mushroom (Auricularia auricula-judae); wood ear mushroom; Jew's ear mushroom

1

Masaoka Shiki (1867-1902)

2

calm sea of spring

1

mantis shrimp (any marine crustacean of order Stomatopoda, esp. the species Oratosquilla oratoria)

2

marbled meat (esp. beef)

2

credit union

1

price of a flower; fee for a geisha's companionship

1

fender (of a car); wing; fender (on a boat)

1

hamachi; young Japanese amberjack; young yellowtail

2

500 yen coin

2

100 yen coin

1

shirataki noodles; white noodles made from konjak starch, often used in sukiyaki; waterfall resembling a white sheet

2

sea squirt; ascidian

2

gasoline (money); petrol (cost)

1

completely using up ...; running out of ...; exhausting ...

1

to tune in to a channel; to switch to a channel

1

pseudonym used when calling in or writing to a radio program

1

nest-building; making a hive, web, den, etc.

1

high-school baseball player

1

granulated sugar; brown sugar

1

garden eel; conger eel (esp. the common Japanese conger, Conger myriaster)

1

removalist; mover

1

strips of dried gourd

2

hot pot cooking

1

"minor snow" solar term (approx. November 22)

2

sophism; chop logic; far-fetched argument; quibble; cavil; argument for argument's sake

1

shiokara; paste made from salted fermented seafood (squid, fish entrails, etc.)

2

rebuilding; reconstruction; re-erection

2

speckled with white; salt-and-pepper (pattern, fabric, etc.); marbling (of beef); (of fish, chicken, shellfish, etc.) blanching by exposure to boiling and then icy water; formation of frost

1

high income

1

toot (e.g. of trumpet); honk (e.g. of klaxon); beep; farting sound; sound of something being inflated; puff

1

major label debut (recording)

1

hey; hello; wow; oh; oomph; heave-ho

1

live fish; fresh fish

1

cheek (of face)

1

temporary residence

7

shabu-shabu; thinly sliced meat boiled quickly with vegetables, and dipped in sauce

5

winter clothing

1

good flavor (flavour); good taste; umami (fifth category of taste in food); skill; cleverness; profit

1

fuck you!; don't fuck with me!; don't fuck around!; don't be a screw off!

1

to rebuild; to reconstruct

2

entertainment

1