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Oooka Shouhei (1909-1988)

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wife; your wife; his wife; married lady; madam

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home town; birthplace; native place; (arch.) ruins; (arch.) historic remains

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dear (old); fondly-remembered; beloved; missed; nostalgic

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speech; tongue; dialect; brogue; bento; Japanese box lunch; petal

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channel

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hearsay

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related to; in relation to; as far as ... is concerned

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stubborn; obstinate; pigheaded

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everyday; daily; ordinary; usual; routine; regular

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exposing fully; uncovering completely; being in full view; putting on display; not disguising

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dialect; provincialism

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to cherish; to treasure; to prize; to take good care of; to look after

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to become emaciated; to waste away; to grow thin and worn out

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to be prolonged; to drag on

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with a feeling of relief; with a sigh of relief; deeply (sigh)

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evening; dusk

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rice reaping; rice harvesting

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semiannual crop; two crops per year

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to discover; to find (e.g. an error in a book); to locate; to find (e.g. something missing); to be used to seeing; to be familiar with

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food

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production; manufacture

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cooking; cookery; cuisine; dealing with something; handling; administration

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it is assuredly that ...; can say with confidence that ...

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youth; young man

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to melt into; to dissolve into; to merge into; to blend into (surroundings); to fit in; to adapt to

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hey!; oi!; ahoy!; I; me

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to wave one's hand

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is that so? (generally rhetorical)

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rice cultivation; rice crop

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relief; peace of mind

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almost every day; almost daily

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vegetable

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to carry; to transport; to come; to go; to wield (a tool, etc.); to use

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thanks to ...; owing to ...; because of ...

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leafy vegetables

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height of summer; hottest part of summer

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leaf vegetable; green vegetable; edible herb

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very; greatly; immense; enormous; serious; grave

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wherein; therein; thereinto

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China; Chūgoku region (western part of Honshu comprising the prefectures of Okayama, Hiroshima, Yamaguchi, Tottori and Shimane); central part of a country; main region; province of the second lowest rank (ritsuryo system)

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water plant; aquatic plant; waterweed; hydrophyte

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former years; formerly; a few years ago

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Vietnam

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flute; fife; pipe; whistle

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castle

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moat; fosse; canal; ditch

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use; utilization; utilisation; application

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cultivation

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field (for fruits, vegetables, etc.); cultivated land; field (of specialization); sphere; womb; birth

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