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Takuya

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aiming for laughs; trying to make people laugh; playing to the crowd; crowd-pleaser

1

Akashi no Kimi (Genji Monogatari)

1

throat lozenge; cough drop

1

net cafe refugee; homeless person living in an Internet cafe

1

picture

2

poetry contest

2

reign of an emperor of Japan

1

vivisection

2

sleeping together

1

light blue; pale blue

1

happily married couple

1

misty, moonlit night; (spring) night with a hazy moon

2

grant; bestowal; giving something to someone of low social standing (by a person of very high social standing)

1

to see; to look; to watch

1

knowing how to swim with the tide; being good at dealing with things

1

too thin; underweight

1

to lose interest; to slacken off

1

Hiromi

8

wintery; atmospheric pressure pattern in winter; winter pressure pattern

1

hypermeter; excess syllables in haiku, waka, etc.

1

straight flush

1

national literature

1

shade; tone; tinge; hue; colour; color

2

cosmology

2

pressure pattern

1

plastic food models used by restaurants

2

"professional name" used by hostesses and geisha

1

poetry party or competition; gathering of tanka poets

2

one scene; one frame; one shot; one cell; one panel (comic)

1

g'morning

1

modern style; contemporary style; current fashion; verse form from the Heian and Kamakura periods consisting of 4 lines each divided into two parts of 7 and 5 syllables

1

Manami

1

long face; looking dejected

1

pluralism; diversity

2

(hamburger) buns; bun

1

aloes wood (Taxus cuspidata var. nana); aloes-wood perfume; aloes-wood incense

1

internal organs; intestines; viscera

1

free time

1

museum

2

pale blue-green

1

to meet fortuitously (e.g. running into an old friend); to meet by chance; to happen across

1

Internet cafe; net cafe

1

the next meeting

2

to say things to ease one's mind

1

elegant; charming; refined; enchanting; tasteful

1

hiss (esp. cat); sizzle; whoosh

1

trees with entwined branches; intimate male and female relationship

1

mother

2

Japanese beautyberry (Callicarpa japonica)

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