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hanafuda; Japanese playing cards (12 suits of 4 cards, each suit representing a month indicated by a flower)

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to color; to colour; to paint; to touch up (by tracing the same image, letter, etc.)

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(of a woman) slender and smartly shaped

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captain

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Kyounosuke

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Toragorou

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rustic samurai; boorish samurai

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pert; tomboyish; impudent; lively; boisterous

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Sukehiro

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older sister; elder sister; young lady; miss; ma'am; older girl

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secret notebook

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Kandabashi

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karuta; traditional Japanese playing cards

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disgusting; gross; bad feeling; weird

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(articles) imported to Japan by early European traders

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dharma transmission (formal confirmation of a student's awakening by his master); certificate of proficiency (in flower arrangement, etc.)

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Netherlands; Holland

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unable to stay still; unable to contain one's feelings; unable to restrain oneself

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brigadier general; commodore

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bamboo dealer; person selling bamboo or articles made of bamboo; house made of bamboo

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Hōreki era (1751.10.27-1764.6.2)

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boorishness; coarseness; stupidity

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Nakasendo (Edo-period Edo-Kyoto highway)

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(someone's) assistance; help; aid; grace (of God); benevolence (of Buddha); blessing

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blunt (e.g. sword); dull; lazy; cowardly; good for nothing

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offering one's opinion (to someone on something)

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pulmonary tuberculosis (in traditional Chinese medicine)

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suggestion box; comment box; (arch.) complaints box placed in front of the supreme court (Edo period)

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that country; (arch.) nirvana

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hired thief taker (Edo-period); private detective; private secret policeman

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a baby's first bath

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sedan chair bearer; palanquin bearer; sedan chair business

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almsgiving

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strait with a roaring tidal ebb and flow; whirlpool; kamaboko with a spiral whirlpool-like pattern; cooking technique where ingredients are cut in a spiral pattern; Naruto (city in Tokushima); Naruto Strait; Naruto wakame

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Okichi

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at last your time has come; I have found you at last

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timid; faint-hearted; wimpish

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hidden; concealed; unknown; passing away; dying; death

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overthrow of the shogunate

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begging Zen priest of the Fuke sect (wearing a sedge hood and playing a shakuhachi flute)

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knot (in rope, etc.); bonds; arrest; rope impressions (on the surface of pottery)

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pickpocket

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one's last moments; hour of death

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quirk of fate; curious coincidence; happy chance

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second (party to an agreement); the B party (e.g. in a contract); stylish; chic; strange; quaint

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circulation of the blood; apprehension

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heaven; paradise

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for goodness' sake; for the love of God; I implore you, ...; I beg of you, ...

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national crisis; national disaster

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that's right; yes; uh-huh

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