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lifespan; life; lifetime; life (of a battery, lightbulb, etc.); service life; end of an object's (useful) life

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completely satisfied; as pleased as can be

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to assemble; to put together; to set up; to form (words, sentences, etc.)

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madness; insanity; madman; mania; craze; obsession

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middle; centre; center; midpoint; heart

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half joking; being (only) half serious; (in a) jocular vein

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junk; rubbish; trash; garbage; odds and ends

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speaking without thinking; words spoken without much thought

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to declare; to assert; to state definitively; to finish saying; to say everything; to tell all

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wickedness; evil; iniquity; wrongness

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to turn away; to bear off; to veer away; to deviate (e.g. of a conversation); to digress; to go astray

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famous; well-known; renowned; your name

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to read a large number (of); to read widely; to read everything that one can lay one's hands on (usu. of specific type, genre)

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Matsumoto Seichō (1909.12.21-1992.8.4)

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short story; short film; short poem

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to support (a theory, claim, etc.); to back up; to substantiate; to prove

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tortoise-shell divination (in ancient China and Japan)

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(arch.) divining; (arch.) telling a fortune; (arch.) predicting; choosing; settling; fixing

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to spread (of a rumour, news, etc.); to travel; to be handed down (from generation to generation); to be passed down; to be introduced (to a country, region, etc.); to be brought; to be conveyed (of a feeling, impression, etc.)

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deer (esp. the sika deer, Cervus nippon); cervid

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shoulder blade; scapula

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long metal chopsticks (for handling charcoal, esp. in a brazier); fire tongs

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to pierce; to penetrate

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to crack; to be cracked; to develop a crack

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hunting

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farming; agriculture; cultivation

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good or bad luck; fortune

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to tell someone's fortune; to divine (the future); to predict; to forecast

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island country

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beach; seashore; seaside; coast

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tortoise; turtle; heavy drinker; turtle crest; turtle mon

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shell (of a crab, tortoise, etc.); carapace; (person's) back; years of experience

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substitution

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due south

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the other; the other one

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Izu (former province located on the Izu Peninsula in present-day Shizuoka Prefecture, and the Izu Islands)

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white sandy beach

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company; firm; (Shinto) shrine; regional Chinese god of the earth (or a village built in its honour); counter for companies, shrines, etc.; incorporated body

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Jōshuu

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Nukimae Shrine

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Bushuu

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Mitake Shrine

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first Sanskrit alphabet letter; Africa; Awa (old province of Japan); (arch.) prefixed to names to show intimacy

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technique; art; skill; move

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stationary point

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(a) row; line

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besides; moreover; in addition

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Mii

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(the) positive; yang (in Chinese divination); the open; visible place

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nine; nine years of age; twelve o'clock (old time system)

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