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admiration; appreciation; enjoyment; viewing (for pleasure)

1

neighbourhood; neighborhood; vicinity

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incomparable; cannot compare (with); beyond comparison; in another league

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as one promised

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as you want; as you will

1

basis; foundation; grounds; authority

2

report to a superior

1

reply; answer; response

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three times; thrice; third (musical interval); many times; over and over again

3

correspondence; exchange of letters

1

every other week; every two weeks

1

to turn up; to make an appearance; to put in an appearance; to drop by

1

proxy; agent; substitute; deputy; alternate; representative

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buying; purchasing

1

goods; articles

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throughout; over a period of ...; over a span of ...

2

munitions; military stores

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military movements

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to read too much into things; to get wrong ideas by letting one's imagination run wild; to have a groundless suspicion

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to burn; to roast; to grill; to bake

2

proportion

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freedom; free; open; unrestricted

1

small talk; chat; gossip

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grilling on a skewer; spit-roasting

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yakitori; chicken pieces (or sometimes beef or pork offal) grilled on a skewer; grilled and skewered bird (esp. sparrow); failing to win a single hand during a half-game

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trial manufacture; experiment; test piece; prototype

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charcoal grilling; char-grilling

1

thank you for waiting; sorry to have kept you waiting

4

peach (Prunus persica)

2

dishes based on spring onions and tuna

1

skirt steak; meat cut from the diaphragm; belly meat (e.g. salmon); peritoneal meat (e.g. chicken)

1

drenched with sweat; sweaty all over

1

division of labor; division of labour; specialization; specialisation; assembly-line production

1

call; summons; usher who calls the names of wrestlers, sweeps the ring, etc.; telephone number at which a person without a telephone can be reached; (arch.) box-shaped area containing clean water for rinsing oneself (in an Edo-period bathhouse); (arch.) high-ranking prostitute in the Yoshiwara district (Edo period); (arch.) unlicensed prostitute in the Fukagawa red-light district (Edo period)

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to accept (e.g. an explanation); to be satisfied (with); to assent (to)

2

salty-sweet

2

tasting (food or drink) for poison; checking the taste (of a dish); seeing how something tastes

6

concubine (of a noble)

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strict; close; precise; scrupulous

2

law decreeing rules for daimyo during Tokugawa shogunate

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court noble; nobility; three lords and nine ministers (of the ancient Chinese government)

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interruption (e.g. of a conversation)

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pool (in river)

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the same age; same period

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historical materials; historical records; historical sources; archives

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in some cases; sometimes; on occasions

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bloodshed

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inheritance dispute; succession dispute

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to be possible to occur

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to poison (e.g. food, drink); to administer poison

2