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hidden; concealed; unknown; passing away; dying; death

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Hōō Maru (Western-style Japanese frigate, launched in 1853)

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Konaki Jijii (a ghost in Japanese folklore with the shape of a small old man and having a baby's cry)

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rapids

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flowers reflected on a mirror and the moon reflected on the water's surface; something that is visible but having no substance; the subtle and profound beauty of poems that cannot be described in words

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paraselene; moon dog; moondog (bright spot on either side of the Moon caused by refraction of moonlight through ice crystals in the atmosphere)

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d button; data button; button on a TV remote control for accessing programme information, weather, traffic, etc.

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coast; beach

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(courteous) invitation; call

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Maruchan

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William Shakespeare

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Blue Dragon

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scariest; most frightening

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random pounding (e.g. on a drum)

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each person; everybody

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garden watchman; garden keeper; guard of the inner garden

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splashing (water); splashing about; vigorously; generously (e.g. pouring sauce); greatly (using or making money)

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legend; folklore; legend (e.g. on a map); usage guide; (living) legend; icon

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with no hard feelings

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fever (state of excitement)

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clapper

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(brute) force; using all one's might

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heave-ho!; heave!

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Shakespeare, William

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to let die

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paltry amount of money; cheapness; worthlessness; three one-mon coins

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cloud; crowd

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to show; to display

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change of attitude (stance, position); lightness of foot; ability to dodge out of the way of an attack

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this evening; tonight

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black magic; black art; witchcraft; sorcery

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swelling; enlargement; becoming fat; hypertrophy

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useless; no good; hopeless

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only once

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uprising; revolt

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to avenge (somebody) by striking down their killer

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romance; love's pathway

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taste (in goods, etc.); manners; etiquette; modesty; restraint; knowledge, experience (of the arts, etc.)

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brute; beast; monster; inhuman person; ungrateful person

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trumpet; horn; bugle

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hand game (e.g. rock-paper-scissors)

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annoying; provoking

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Europe and America; the West

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skill; dexterity; master hand

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to be; to exist; to be (honorific copula)

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to shuffle (on one's bottom or knees); to crawl; to shift position (of an object)

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narrow escape from death

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country in civil war; country disarrayed by war; Warring States period (Japan, China); competiton in which there are several evenly-matched participants; hotly-contested game (match, market, etc.)

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decoy (for hunting); stool; lure; decoy; stool pigeon

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Emon

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