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long nail; spike

2

single-parent family; one-parent family; single-parent household

1

Fushiki

1

single parent; one parent

1

Eurasian bullfinch (Pyrrhula pyrrhula); Japanese bullfinch

3

treating bed hair; hair product for treating bed hair

1

infield; diamond

1

Sasakura

1

exorcism rite; purification

2

thunder; god of thunder

1

to anticipate; to foresee

1

cursing ritual where one visits a shrine at 2am and nails a doll representing a person to a tree, praying for said person's death

2

straw doll; straw figure; straw effigy

13

Japanese drum

1

flabbily; softly; limply; easily (bend); effortlessly; flexibly

1

Kenji

2

kokkuri; divination technique similar to table turning and planchette

2

dead of night; middle of the night; midnight; third quarter of the hour of the ox (2-2:30am, or 3-3:30am)

1

one's employer's house; one's employer; place of apprenticeship

2

shoplifting; shoplifter

1

teammate

3

rolling (something); knocking down; fishing with multiple hooks on a weighted line; repeatedly buying and selling

1

tea bag

1

listening (esp. in foreign language education); listening comprehension; (public) hearing

1

pea green; yellow-green

1

cloth bib displaying a competitor's number; athlete's number

1

continuing one's education into university

2

make-up; making food (in a delivery-only restaurant); cooking

1

manager (e.g. of a business, an idol, etc.); in a sports team (esp. at school) someone who does the routine drudge work

2

roasted green tea

2

expected value; expectation value; expectation

1

Naporitan; Napolitan; Japanese spaghetti dish made with ketchup

1

secondhand bookshop; antiquarian bookshop

1

home cooking

1

to manufacture; to produce; to raise (crops); to invent; to dream up; to create

1

strange disease; rare disease

1

Naniwa (former name for Osaka region)

4

sacred tree; support pillars of the traditional fire festival bonfires

1

white clothing

1

to reach back into one's memory; to search one's mind; to recall

2

weasel (esp. the Japanese weasel, Mustela itatsi); mustelid (any other member of the weasel family, incl. badgers, martens, minks, ferrets, otters, polecats, stoats, skunks, etc.)

2

large statue of Buddha (trad. at least 4.8m high)

4

Heian period (794-1185)

1

shoes

6

middle-distance (races); intermediate-range (missile)

1

to meet (by chance); to come across; to meet (e.g. of rivers, highways, etc.); to emerge and engage (an enemy)

1

(person with) no sense of direction; poor sense of locality

1

living by oneself; living alone

2

looking and listening; (television) viewing; watching; (public) attention; interest

1

show; display; pretensions; pose (in kabuki); posture

1