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a drop in the bucket; a drop in the ocean; (lit.) (pouring) water on a hot stone

1

concatenation; coupling; connection; linking; consolidation (e.g. of company accounts)

10

manner of speaking; mode of expression; way of saying something

4

mere consolation; temporary peace of mind

1

happy; auspicious; propitious; naive

5

one more time; once more; once again

4

to die

4

speaking of; (I told you) already; come on

11

great adventure

6

compilation (of a text); editing; volume (of a text); completed literary work

1

dictator; despot

16

illness; disease; bad habit; weakness; fault

8

disease; -pathy

2

day-dreamer; fantasist

1

suspicion begets monsters

1

thicket; bush; grove; (medical) quack

2

contracting a disease

1

generation; lifetime; age

3

to rise (suddenly) in the world (to a higher position)

2

successful person

4

star (cinema, sports, etc.); celebrity; star symbol; asterisk; (celestial) star

3

highway (esp. one existing from the Edo period); main road; highway (e.g. to success); path (to becoming ...); subdistrict (in China)

5

elite

55

selling or divesting in unwanted stocks; hiding bad loans

3

to go to the top; to climb to the top; to ascend to the top; to be engrossed in; to be very enthusiastic about; to be infatuated with

2

to pass (a car); to overtake; to surpass; to outstrip; to outdistance

8

scary; frightening; eerie; dreadful

4

being based on

1

to be seen from the point of view of an onlooker

4

to talk oneself hoarse; to shout oneself hoarse

3

let me humbly say; most humbly; with all due respect

1

Toyotomi Hideyoshi

1

sword hunt; sword confiscation

1

to be afraid of making mistakes; to fear failing

3

overprotective; excessive care; overprotection; overprotectiveness

2

to fear; to doubt; to have misgivings about; to worry about; to be anxious about; to be apprehensive about

11

twenty years of age; youth; early age; tender age of ...

3

event; phenomenon; matter

9

dictatorial

3

notes; instructions

2

dictatorship; despotism

8

inducing; causing; triggering; giving rise to

5

sickness and health start with the mind

1

one sheet; one page; one block of tofu; one serving (in a restaurant); one long and narrow thing (e.g. guns, scissors, spades, hoes, inksticks, palanquins, candles, jinrikishas, shamisen, oars, etc.); one chō (unit of distance, 109.09 m); one game

1

getting poised again for charging; toeing the mark again; starting again; getting a fresh start; going back to square one

3

soldier; sailor

20

assignment (of a person to somewhere); attachment (of a person to another unit, organization, etc.)

10

act of war; hostile act

3

public matter; governmental matter; prince; duke; lord; sir

1

anonymity

3