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to get angry; to get mad; to tell someone off; to scold; to be angular; to be square

4

to cross one's mind; to spring to mind; to occur to one

1

dying young; early death

1

poet

3

Yagi Juukichi

1

simple; artless; naive; unsophisticated

3

short; brief

3

light; well-lit; bright (of a colour); brightly-coloured; cheerful; bright; encouraging (for the future of a project, etc.)

2

-proof; -resistant

1

to be unable to; to find difficult (unpleasant, awkward, painful) to do; to serve two or more functions or roles simultaneously; to contain (or combine) two or more features; to work in two or more jobs simultaneously (positions, etc.); to do alongside

2

to sound; to ring; to resound; to echo; to roar; to rumble

1

extra; more; unnecessary; needless; all the more; even more

1

unnecessary; unneeded

1

Shōwa period (1926-1989); Showa period

1

February; second month of the lunar calendar

1

being baptized; undergoing baptism

1

Uchimura Kanzou

1

Nondenominationalism (a Japanese Christian group)

1

English teacher

1

(religious) faith; belief; creed

1

composition of a poem

1

immersion; being absorbed in

1

poetry anthology; collection of poems; collected poems

2

pupil (of eye); eye

1

Satou Sounosuke (1890.12.3-1942.5.15)

1

supervision; superintendence; chairmanship; chairman

1

this; this one; this person; now; this point (in time); here; used to stress the subject of a sentence

1

same person; said person; the person in question; coterie; clique; dōjin

1

twenty-sixth day of the month; twenty-six days

1

death

1

following year

1

selecting from one's own works; one's own selection; voting for oneself

1

poor; needy; lacking (quantity and quality-wise); poor; scanty

1

layman; believer; adherent; follower; laity

1

Tokyo

6

higher normal school; pre-war public school that trained male teachers

1

low-ranking soldier; graduation; moving on (from); outgrowing (something); low-ranking samurai (1870-1872); death (of a noble, etc.)

1

carpenter

4

investigation; inspection; examination; tune; note; melody

2

rakugo; traditional Japanese comic storytelling; comic story (told by a professional storyteller)

2

one vehicle; one ryō (an old coin)

4

halving; dividing (into two parts); bisection; the two equinoxes (vernal and autumnal)

4

800; eight hundred; multitude; large number

7

thereupon; shortly thereafter

1

slowly; tardily; complaining; grumbling; unsettled (e.g. weather); loose

1

to be ...-ing; to have been ...-ing

1

then; well; so; be; is

9

nonexistent; not being (there); not having; not

2

master; boss; stable master; craftsman; artisan; (arch.) foster parent

1

to take; to carry (something) away; to bear

1