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understanding person; supporter

2

to support; to prop; to sustain; to hold at bay; to stem; to check

2

seventh day of the month; seven days

1

day trip

1

Miyagi (prefecture)

3

Harumi

1

mother; mom; mum; wife

2

funeral service; memorial service; farewell ceremony (e.g. for a retiree)

1

to extend; to stretch out; to attend; to participate in; to enrol; to enroll

1

being too late; losing one's final chance

1

cancer

1

attack (disease)

1

(a) little; (a) few; slight; only; just; merely

1

death; decease; (arch.) death penalty (by strangulation or decapitation); (an) out

10

island group; archipelago

2

Zamamijima

1

living witness

1

Shōwa era (1926.12.25-1989.1.7); reminiscent of the Shōwa era; Shōwa- nostalgic; old-fashioned

1

(common) cold; influenza; flu; ague; inflammatory respiratory system illness (in general)

1

heat; fever; temperature; zeal; passion

1

seat; place; position; status; gathering; party; stand

1

flavor; flavour; charm; appeal; experience; taste (e.g. of victory)

2

pension (Western-style boardinghouse)

1

to sleep (lying down); to go to bed; to lie in bed; to lie down; to sleep (with someone, i.e. have intercourse); to lie flat (e.g. of hair); to lie idle (of funds, stock, etc.)

4

hot (thing); passionate (feelings, etc.); ardent; hot (e.g. temper); zealous; enthusiastic; intense

3

thin rice porridge; watery cooked rice; rice gruel; congee

1

family; members of a family

8

beautiful maiden; beauty

1

to become; to amount to

6

map

3

to draw; to paint; to depict; to describe; to picture in one's mind; to imagine

19

wartime fire; war; wartime destruction; horrors of war

1

to live through hell; to go to hell and back; to suffer dire straits

1

to be shy; to be bashful; to look shy

1

calamity; disaster; catastrophe

1

in detail; with great care; completely; fully

1

(practical) experience; personal experience; hands-on experience; first-hand experience

3

honorific/polite/humble prefix; honorific suffix

1

in good health; alive and well; going strong

1

peculiarity; uniqueness; characteristic; understood only by oneself

2

Okinawan language; Okinawan dialect

1

interpretation (i.e. oral translation); interpreter

1

pathetic; plaintive

1

extremely; in the extreme; knows no bounds (e.g. rudeness); boundless (e.g. universe, ocean); limitless

1

blood relationship; blood relative

1

lukewarm; tepid; lenient; (arch.) slow; (arch.) stupid

1

way of reciting; way of telling a story

1

ninety; 90

1

mother

1

big tree

2