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cyclamen (esp. species Cyclamen persicum)

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loanword; foreign-origin word

3

obsession; fixation; complaining; criticizing; speciality (e.g. of restaurants)

1

hotel

1

number; series of digits

4

telephone number

1

being in dire distress; being hard put to it; the four and eight kinds of suffering

1

sweet potato shop; sweet potato seller

1

sericulture; silkworm culture; silkworm raising

1

farmer; farming family; farmhouse

1

silkworm (Bombyx mori)

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mouse; rat; dark gray; dark grey; slate (color, colour)

2

snake; serpent; large snake

4

to crawl; to creep; to slither; to wriggle; to trail (of vines, flowers, etc.); to spread

2

to be found

2

dark brown; colour of tanned skin

1

nectar; honey; honeydew; treacle; molasses; sorbitol (when visible as dark patches inside an apple)

1

Christmas

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New Year

1

flea

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to prohibit

1

louse (esp. a sucking louse); lice

3

thoughtless; reckless; rash; excessive; unreasonable; immoderate

1

to warn against; to caution against; to admonish; to scold; to prohibit; to forbid; (arch.) to be cautious

1

edition; version; plate; block; editions of a publication

1

from long ago; from old times; from time immemorial

1

science

1

to go to ruin; to go under; to fall; to be destroyed; to die out; to become extinct

1

contrary to expectations; or so we thought, but ...

1

student preparing for or taking examinations (usu. entrance exams); test-taker

2

to glide; to slide (e.g. on skis); to fail (an examination); to bomb (when telling a joke); to drop; to go down

3

large; large-sized; large-scale; big

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typhoon; hurricane

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Aomori (city, prefecture)

1

invasion; raid; attack; visitation (of a calamity)

1

noted product; local specialty

1

(suffering) damage; injury; harm

1

encouragement (as an abstract concept); stimulation

1

present; gift; to give a present or gift

1

commercial spirit

1

omen; sign of luck; origin; history; dependent arising; doctrine that everything has a cause and there is nothing that arises out of nothing

2

osechi; osechi-ryōri; traditional food eaten during the New Year's holidays

1

herring roe

1

perpetuation of one's descendants

1

to celebrate; to congratulate; to present (a gift) in celebration; to drink in celebration; to wish for (a happy future, good fortune, etc.); to pray for

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type of food (sliced dried herring or other fish wrapped in kombu seaweed and boiled)

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eating habits

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peace; harmony

1

divine wind (esp. a typhoon thought to have protected Japan from a Mongolian invasion in the 13th century); kamikaze

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to wish (for); to pray (for); to hope (for); to pray silently; to recite (Buddha's name, sutras, etc.) in one's mind; to chant (a silent prayer)

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