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jail for women (Edo period)

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Setomonochō

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OK; sure; yessir!; okey dokey!; understood

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store selling boiled vegetables, fish, and beans

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merchant house employee; tradesman

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Sarue

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(of a couple) fighting and splitting up

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to pierce through; to stand (of something sharp or pointy); to thrust (up)

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precinct of a jail; vicinity of a prison

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ejection; eviction; dispossession

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to understand; to comprehend

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long illness; protracted illness

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shoji with an oil-treated screen (for increased water resistance)

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to give off (a smell, scent, aroma); to smell of; to perfume (a room, etc.); to hint at; to suggest; to insinuate

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Kodenmachō

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nakamise; shops lining a passageway in the precincts of a Shinto shrine

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white gem (esp. a pearl); rice flour dumpling; white-flowered camellia

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address

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superficial; half-hearted; shallow

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Benzaiten; Saraswati; goddess of music, eloquence, also wealth and water

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deep regret; bitter disappointment; chagrin; vexation

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buffoon; jester

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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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drowned body of a person

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vegetables; (edible) greens; blueback (any fish with a bluish back, such as the Japanese sardine)

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gratuity; tip

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jealousy

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I'm sorry to have kept you waiting

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clothes for a newborn baby; baby clothes

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to go into labor; to go into labour

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to play a trick; to put up a false show; to deceive someone; to put on a play; to present a play; to give a play

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dully; dispassionately; apathetically; in a subdued manner

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Sasamorpha borealis (species of bamboo grass unique to Japan)

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Hyottoko; comical male character with puckered, skewed mouth; clown; ugly mug; ugly guy

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blast it!; bloody hell!; by thunder!; you bastard!; god damn you!; motherfucker!

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greed; cruelty; callous; (arch.) insistent; (arch.) insistence

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native-born; trueborn

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mentality; mood; sentiment; fretfulness; tedium; irritation

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permanence; eternity

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earthenware; porcelain; china; pottery; crockery

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town

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to rake over the coals; to scold; to chastise; to burn moxa on the skin

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a disgrace (to a whole group of people)

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bedpan; chamber pot; potty

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to let out; to utter; to issue; to send; to leave; to depart

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oaf; bigot

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hatchet; axe; wood-chopping; wood-splitting

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strange occurrence; unusual occurrence; unexpected occurrence; grave and unexpected occurrence

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the trouble is that ...; the problem is that ...; unfortunately; annoyingly

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onigiri; rice ball (often triangular, sometimes with a filling and wrapped in nori)

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