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Bellows Festival; festival for blacksmiths and foundries on the eighth day of the eleventh month of the lunar calendar, on which they would clean their bellows and pray

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drawing red lines; red lines on maps marking town limits (Edo period); (arch.) red lines marking nouns in kanbun texts

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Fukada Kyuuya

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love-letter

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another day; the next day

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next year; following year

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a hundred lashes; a hundred strokes

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one hundred famous mountains (of Japan)

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Tetsugorou

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thing; person; situation; fox

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nobody can win against advancing age

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to become free; to get time off

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livelihood

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escape from evil; exorcism

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bags and purses (handbags)

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children's song; nursery song

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one-stroke sketch; unicursal

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influential; powerful; popular; prosperous; doing well

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complete recovery from illness

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needlework; sewing; seamstress

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the other party

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to do (someone) a wrong; to do (someone) an ill turn; to take revenge; to resent; to bear a grudge

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both parents

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by (from) choice; by (for) preference; of one's own accord; of one's (own) free will; on purpose; deliberately

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death in jail; death in prison

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extraordinary; excessive

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to support; to back up; to revive (e.g. a company); to boost (e.g. morale); to bring up; to raise

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ordinary (esp. life or behavior); typical; conventional; standard; average

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homely woman (esp. one with a small low nose, high flat forehead, and bulging cheeks); plain woman; soba in soup with slices of boiled fish paste, shiitake mushrooms, greens, seaweed, etc.

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lines of the palm; aptitude; handwriting; apt move (in a go or shogi game); standard method

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promiscuous woman; wanton girl

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distribution of mementos

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person who just tags along; hanger-on; person who follows someone around like a shadow; clingy person; mindless follower; (lit.) goldfish feces

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good offices; auspices; sponsorship; village official (during the Edo period)

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by and by; before long

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Okichi

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casting; cast-metal object

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Ayano

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speaker; one who is skilled at speaking

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mountain climber; mountaineer

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living only for one's work; a life with no other interest than one's work

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armful; employee

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elder brother's wife; sister-in-law

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post horse

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gloom; mental depression

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unavoidable; no help for

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to dismiss (an employee); to discharge; to divorce one's wife; to give a holiday; to give vacation time

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to sniffle; to snivel

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old story; reminiscence

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false accusations; unfounded suspicion; groundless charge; wet clothes

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