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hair style; coiffure; hairdo

2

garments; attire

4

childhood name

4

to abolish; to abandon; to repeal; to dethrone; to depose

3

magazine

5

pivot; vital point; cornerstone; Japanese photinia

3

record; transcript

5

forty; 40

3

beat; round

1

baby

1

to return; to come back; to turn over; to become extremely; to become completely

1

hood; kerchief

2

padded sleeveless kimono jacket; Japanese vest

1

origin; source; base; basis; cause; ingredient; material

9

divination sign

1

collar; lapel; neckband; nape of the neck; scruff of the neck

4

70th birthday; ancient Greek (language)

2

Toho

1

seventy; 70

1

rare; seldom

1

navy blue; deep blue

3

abbreviated form of a Chinese character; simplified character; acronym; abbreviation

1

mustard

1

tea; tea plant (Camellia sinensis); tea preparation; making tea; brown; (arch.) mockery

60

100; hundred

9

present; gift

1

of bad omen; ill augur; boding evil; bad fortune

2

sound (of a sentence); euphony

1

parting; separation; farewell

3

association (of ideas); being reminded (of something); suggestion

5

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

2

to chip; to be chipped; to be missing (from a set, team, etc.); to be absent; to be lacking (in); to be short (of)

2

better; preferable

1

misfortune; bad luck; unlucky year; critical year; (arch.) smallpox

1

basic tone; underlying tone; trend; keynote

1

Onbashira Festival; log-dragging festival held once every six years in Suwa, Nagano

21

Suwa (city)

1

under (guidance, supervision, rules, the law, etc.); under (a flag, the sun, etc.); beneath; with (e.g. one blow); on (the promise, condition, assumption, etc. that ...); (somebody's) side

16

Suwachō

1

Suwa Grand Shrine

8

year in which an imperial memorial ceremony is held (the 3rd, 5th, 10th 20th, 50th and 100th years after death and every 100 years thereafter)

1

grand festival

2

Japanese fir (Abies firma); momi fir

1

four (long cylindrical things)

2

circumference; girth; surroundings; neighbourhood; people surrounding oneself; surrounding circumstances

2

the Tiger (third sign of the Chinese zodiac); hour of the Tiger (around 4am, 3-5am, or 4-6am); east-northeast; first month of the lunar calendar

3

year of the Monkey

2

pointed knife; logging; cutting; (beef) scraps; starting to speak; extraction (of a portion of a media file)

1

dropping; losing; missing item; something one forgot to write down; trap; wooden protrusion from a Japanese door frame that fits a hole in the threshold, acting as a lock when closed; conclusion (of a speech, etc.)

4

each time; always; often; thank you for your continued patronage

1