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Flannelgraph

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hair (of the head); pubic hair

1

pleurisy

1

Sasai

1

roar; peal; rumble; beating; pounding; throbbing

7

(feeling of) shame

1

pinky swear; pinky promise; linking little fingers to confirm a promise

1

monetary offering; offertory

1

outpatients

1

first shrine visit of New Year

1

Chinese juniper (Juniperus chinensis)

6

greed; avarice; covetousness; greedy person

1

Japanese staunton-vine (Stauntonia hexaphylla)

1

(arch.) bracelet (made of stringed jewels or bells and worn at the elbow); bracer (for the elbow of an archer)

1

echo; reverberation; sound (esp. the distinctive sound of an object or activity, e.g. rain, gun, gallop, drum); noise; quality of a sound (e.g. a fine phrase, clear voice, resonant bell); feeling of a sound

9

to take another good look at; to reconsider; to analyze; to reexamine

1

on the roof; court nobles

1

soup containing rice cakes and vegetables (New Year's dish)

1

(at) the beginning of the New Year; early in the New Year

1

big snake; serpent

8

thunder and lightning

1

purification

1

woodcutter; lumberjack; logger

2

stiff neck; stiff shoulders

1

stone monument bearing an inscription (esp. memorial for future generations); stele; stela

2

son (of others); boy; young master; green young man from a well-to-do family; young man innocent of the ways of the world

1

to sink (e.g. a ship); to submerge; to lower (e.g. one's body into a chair); to floor (an opponent)

1

pinky swear; pinky promise; hooking each other's little fingers to confirm a promise

1

severe earthquake; violent tremor

1

head of family; originator

2

careless; thoughtless; hasty; rash

1

gale; violent (strong) wind

1

long ago

1

father; dad

3

horn; alarm; whistle; foghorn

1

boy; kid; child

2

honest person

1

mature age; advanced age; maturity; age when one is old enough to know better

1

to come of age; to become an adult; to become fully qualified; to stand on one's own

1

there in body, but not in spirit; distracted; in one ear and out the other

1

rikka; formal style of ikebana

3

to give one's life; to lay down one's life

1

difficult to ...; hard to ...

1

energy; military strength

1

pupil (of eye); eye

3

naturally; in due course; by itself; of its own accord

1

to tell (somebody) to (do something)

1

futility; waste; uselessness; pointlessness; idleness

1

promotion (school, military, etc.)

1

(giving) instruction; initiation

1