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welcome (news); inviting; encouraging; tempting; hopeful

1

one house

7

tenement house; row house

3

hanging (by the neck)

1

the two; both

2

to open (e.g. doors); to open (e.g. business, etc.); to be empty; to be vacant; to be available; to be open (e.g. neckline, etc.); to have been opened (of one's eyes, mouth, etc.)

4

for the time being; for the present; immediate; present; for some time (after); current account

1

double suicide; lovers' suicide

5

to move (house); to change residence

5

to leave as; to view as; to maintain the status quo

1

being filled with; being full of; permeation

2

runaway (esp. child)

1

police cell; place of detention; jail

1

large-scale

1

household search (conducted by the police)

1

shape; appearance; collateral; obverse of an old "zeni" coin

1

compression; condensation; constriction; compaction

1

early spring

2

up to now; so far; traditional; conventional; usual

1

children and grandchildren; posterity; descendants

1

master; expert; mansion; large house; rich family; distinguished family

1

trouble; quarrel; dispute

1

make no progress; remain unsettled

1

fortunately; luckily; thankfully

1

large forest

1

strange; eccentric

4

shorthand; stenography

1

ghost story

1

rapid completion; intensive training

1

halving; splitting evenly; sharing equally

1

dull; uninteresting; insignificant; unimportant; absurd; foolish

1

hack writer

1

strange; unfamiliar; mysterious; suspicious; (lit.) of an unknown nature

1

to bite (at); to snap at; to snap at (someone); to flare up at; to jump down (someone's) throat

1

without cause; without reason

1

literary world; literary circles

4

notes; draft; manuscript

1

both persons

3

homesickness

1

manuscript fee; payment for a piece of writing

5

number two; mistress; concubine

4

cooperation; collaboration

1

the current ...; this; today's ...

1

Kan'ichi

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Koyama Yuushi (1906.3.29-1982.6.10)

1

dear friends; (all of) you or those men

2

destructive; devastating

2

disgraceful behavior; disgraceful behaviour

1

rising; exacerbated; exasperated; accelerated; aggravated

3

scattered; disperse; loose; disconnected; in pieces; in drops

2