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to burn; to roast; to broil; to heat; to heat up; to make (charcoal, pottery, bricks, etc.); to bake

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imitation; fake; phony; pseudo-

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how (beautiful, etc.); what a ...; nothing worth mentioning; nothing special; of what name

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Tanizaki Jun'ichirō (1886-1965)

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beautiful; gorgeous

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to dig up; to turn up; to tear up; to rake up (e.g. old scandal); to dig over

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surely; clearly; without a doubt; in all probability; no matter how one slices it; no matter how one looks at it

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Shunkin

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excerpt; extract; annotation; shō (unit of volume, approx. 1.8 ml)

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unreasonable; unnatural; impossible; forcible; forced; excessive (work, etc.); immoderate

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bookshelves; bookshelf; bookcase

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to find out; to discover; to locate

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Akutagawa Ryuunosuke (1892.3.1-1927.7.24)

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approximately; about; promise; appointment; shortening; reduction

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after an interval of ... years; for the first time in ... years

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raw materials; ingredients

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fragrant wood; aromatic tree

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being argued into silence; being left speechless

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excretion; discharge; excrement

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all; altogether; entirely; exactly like; just like; spitting image of

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manufacturing; processing; treatment; machining

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joke; jest; banter

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stealthily; secretly; in secret

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to think hard; to brood over; to worry too much (about); to torment oneself (with the thought of)

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misunderstanding; mistaken idea; wrong guess

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rice gruel with diced sweet potatoes; gruel with ivy broth and finely minced Japanese yam served at large Imperial banquets

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confusion; mixing; merger

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stigma; dishonour; dishonor; infamy

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impact (on); (strong) impression; effect; impact (of a ball against a racket, bat, club, etc.)

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to become misty; to become hazy; to get blurry; to grow dim; to be overshadowed; to be upstaged

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major general; rear admiral; air commodore

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as a child; when one was a child; childhood

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greatly; really

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nice; likeable; desirable

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Dioscorea tokoro (species of wild yam); old man living in the countryside

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gō; traditional unit of volume, approx. 0.1804 litres; gō; traditional unit of area, approx 0.33 metres square; one-tenth of the way from the base to the summit of a mountain; conjunction; sum

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incense; mixture of fragrant woods, etc. used for making incense

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(arch.) ivy (esp. Boston ivy, Parthenocissus tricuspidata); jiaogulan (species of herbaceous vine; Gynostemma pentaphyllum)

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to knead; to thicken into a paste (stirring over a flame); to polish (a plan, etc.); to refine; to train; to drill; to tan (leather)

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to harden; to freeze; to put together; to collect; to make secure; to stabilize; to fortify

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to crowd out; to push out; to start together; to set out en masse; to highlight; to draw attention to

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camouflage; disguise; pretense; feigning; masquerade

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myself; oneself; (arch.) I; (arch.) me; (arch.) you (referring to one's inferior)

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transformation; abnormality; sexual perversion; pervert; metamorphosis; transformation

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Konjaku Monogatarishū (31-volume collection of stories written during the late Heian period); The Tale of Kanjaku

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prayer; heartfelt wish

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citizen; resident; person; user (of a website, esp. as a collective, e.g. Twittersphere)

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people; citizens; subjects; folk

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how many years; how long; what year

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overserious; deeply sincere; very earnest

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