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bathwater with iris petals

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Boy's Day celebration (May 5)

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to fail; to slip up; to make a botch job (of)

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God bless me!; Good heavens!

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major change; major transformation

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licensed; chartered; officially allowed; legitimate

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false impression; deceptive appearance; mere show

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seasonal festival

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five-storied; quintuplicate; fivefold

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cannon

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to be nearing death; to be dying

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(arch.) Chinese bamboo; (arch.) bamboo imported from China (often used to make flutes); descending vertical sword attack (in kendo, etc.)

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to wound; to murder

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difficult problem; challenge

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Olympic rings; Olympics

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to escape danger

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pointing down; pointing downward; (market) decline; downturn; downward trend

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report to the Emperor

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old man; old geezer

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remnant; fragment; fraction; odd sum; halfway; half-hearted

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one stroke (of a brush); a few lines (of writing); note; writing in one go (without stopping to apply more ink to the brush); parcel (of land); same handwriting

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treat; banquet; feast; (arch.) running about

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of all people; a person of ...'s standing

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yellow

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struggling; pawing (e.g. horses' hooves)

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the relation of master to servant

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

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thin skin

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ghost that appears at sea during a shipwreck; something strange or suspicious; idiot; fool; noh mask for roles involving dead or ghost characters

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useless; no good; hopeless

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half; semi-; half-past; odd number; (arch.) unit of land area (595.8 m^2)

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mishmash; miscellany; medley; jumble; mixture; odds and ends

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exclamation of surprised disappointment, disgust, or worry (yuck, ick, ack, eeew, crap!, blech, gross)

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steam whistle

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shamisen; samisen; three-stringed Japanese lute

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supreme commander

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raging fire; conflagration

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making one's debut; making one's first appearance; (just) showing one's face; showing up; introductory kabuki performance (to introduce the actors); December kabuki performance at Kyoto's Minamiza Theater in which all famous actors perform

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return; reaction; recovery; return (from a procedure)

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binding; regulation; limit; binding period (e.g. phone or broadband contract); minimum contract term

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high-ranking noh actor; head of a school of noh performance; high ranking courtesan (esp. in Yoshiwara) (Edo-period); jōruri narrator; manzai narrator; female role actor in kabuki; low ranking priest in a Shinto shrine

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attack on both sides; pincer movement; double envelopment

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hooray; yay; whee; yowzer; whoopee; yes

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nursery school; day nursery; preschool

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retailing; repeating (someone else's words, opinion, etc.); parroting; echoing

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punishment; judgement; judgment

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squadron

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rate; ratio; profit; assignment; 10%; unit of ten percent; match

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comfort; ease; easy; simple; (economically) comfortable; raku pottery

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damn kids

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