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Kuroiwa

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humming a samisen tune

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Akita (city, prefecture)

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licensed; chartered; officially allowed; legitimate

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being without a name; being nameless; namelessness

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the giant slalom

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(projection) screen; the silver screen; the film world; movies

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to strip; to peel; to tear off

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to dig up; to dig out; to pick (nose, teeth); to clean out (ears)

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unification of the whole country

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wedge; chock; linchpin; tie; bond

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best article under heaven; peerless

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to fall behind; to lag behind; to lose (race, contest)

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eyeballs

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payment (for labour); pay; charge; wages

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we; us; (arch.) I; (arch.) me; (arch.) you (referring to a group of one's equals or inferiors)

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tag; label; game of tag; tag-team match; working together as a team

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Sanzu River (Buddhist equivalent of the River Styx)

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report to the Emperor

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Ira

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bygones; the past; past event

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to deceive; to delude; to trick; to be as ... as ... (e.g. "as bright as day", "as beautiful as a rose")

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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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trying the food at various restaurants; eating tour; walking while eating; eating while walking

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ho-ho-ho (e.g. Santa Claus)

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yellow

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as you see; as you can see

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to become famous; to go out into the world; to make one's way in the world; to appear

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internal organ; viscera; gut

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useless; no good; hopeless

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bottomless (bucket, etc.); unbounded (good nature, optimism, etc.); boundless; imprudent; indiscreet; extremely heavy drinker

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trifling; trivial

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fine food; high-quality food; gourmet; epicure; gastronome

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to get tired of; to lose interest in; to be fed up with; to have enough

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solidarity; banding together and working as one for a common cause

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shell (e.g. electron shell)

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disk

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to have (something) innate; to be born with

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ability; gift; talent; sai; traditional unit of volume, approx. 1.8 ml

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to do

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inviting another to one's home, office, etc.; (lit.) the trouble of coming (going)

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friend

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however; having said that; but

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nth generation; nth (person to occupy a position, e.g. president)

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to express (in words); to confess

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to be bloodcurdling; to be ghastly

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extremely; very

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green (colour); green (energy, car, etc.); environmentally friendly; greenland; green space; green (on a golf course)

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Japan's best; number one in Japan

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principal occupation; main job; professional; an expert; I (of a government official, etc.); me

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