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wooden spatula

3

to pour oil on (something); to anoint with oil; to turn up; to add fuel (e.g. to a dispute); to rev up

1

in plain words; in plain terms; put simply

1

dose; installment; instalment

1

good story; heartwarming story; good prospect (e.g. marriage, business)

2

going around in circles; circling a temple; roll-call vote

1

remaining heat; residual excitement; lingering enthusiasm

1

water; (drinking) water; night entertainment business; nightlife worker; racy; titillating

1

tray; family; household; O-Bon; Bon Festival; gambler's den

1

to be of benefit; to be useful; to be good for you

2

tea; tea plant (Camellia sinensis); tea preparation; making tea; brown; (arch.) mockery

2

drugstore; pharmacy

1

remedy for a cold; cold medicine

1

to trace back to (the origins of something)

1

original; unique; distinctive; independent; one's own; personal

1

to peel; to skin; to pare; to hull; to bare (e.g. fangs); to open wide (e.g. eyes)

2

grim face; angry look

1

rubbing the wrong way (e.g. a cat); irritating

1

to suck (or draw) out; to aspirate

2

actual article or goods; spots (stocks, foreign exchange, commodities, etc.); (in) kind (income, benefit, rent, taxes, investment, etc.)

1

stall-keeper (esp. at a festival); street vendor; hawker; seller of unreliable merchandise; faker; huckster

23

to peddle (goods); to hawk

1

to want something desperately; to want something (so badly one can taste it)

1

to press for an answer; to shower questions on someone

2

stall-keeper (esp. at a festival); street vendor; huckster; faker; hawker; seller of unreliable merchandise

1

to wander from place to place; to change jobs

6

roadside; wayside

1

street stall; stand; booth

1

quotient; dealing; dealer; second degree (of the Japanese and Chinese pentatonic scale); Shang dynasty (China, approx. 1600-1046 BCE); Yin dynasty

1

departed spirit; soul of the dead; ghost; apparition

22

inn town; post town; post-station town

4

barrier; gate; seki (in go); mutual life

11

resistance (e.g. to antibiotics); tolerance (e.g. drug tolerance)

3

person with a lot of free time on their hands; person of leisure; idler; loafer

1

best one could ask for; just what one wants; welcome (news); heaven-sent

2

kindness

1

minor business

8

forcing; compulsion; coercion; pushing (to do)

1

Moro; Muslim inhabitant of the Philippines; conspicuously; openly; completely; entirely

1

feast; treating (someone); to treat (someone, e.g. to a meal)

1

branch road; forked road; branch; crossroads (of a course of events); turning point; parting of the ways

1

maximum; to the maximum degree; to the full

1

viewing optimistically; thinking optimistically; taking an optimistic view; looking on the bright side

1

all on one's own

1

heartache; ache in one's heart; emotional pain

2

education; schooling; training; culture; cultivation; education

1

to assume the air of ...; to behave like ...; to put on airs; to be self-important

1

to become unrestrained and go to excess; to lose all restraint; to lose one's tension and become relaxed; to let go; to become disorderly; to be scattered

1

fifty-three stations on the Tōkaidō (Edo-Kyoto highway in Edo-period Japan)

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Tokaido (Edo-period Edo-Kyoto highway)

2