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individual of taste

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original text; source book; draft

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spring; fountain

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Occident and Orient (esp. the Occident); ocean; sea; foreign; Western

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reading-book; reader; guidebook; textbook (esp. a pre-war elementary school Japanese language textbook)

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Ubukata Tou

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spring season

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Tokuma Shoten (publisher)

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region south of Tokyo on Pacific Ocean side of Japan; eastern sea; East Sea (Korean name for Sea of Japan)

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article; item; quality; flirtatiousness; coquetry

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Tokyo

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Italy

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excellent article; fine item; rare beauty; masterpiece; gem

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preeminence; excellence; superiority; transcendence

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artistic

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regarding highly; attaching importance to

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(not) always; (not) necessarily; (not) entirely; (not) all

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rough; crude; sloppy; miscellaneous

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government permission; official licence; official license; government permit

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diverse; varied

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spelling; orthography; patching; binding

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roll (e.g. of cloth); winding (e.g. watch); volume (of book); speeding up; heel (of a Japanese sandal)

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form; shape; figure

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literacy

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long (time); protracted; prolonged

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diffusion rate; rate of spread

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department (in an organization); division; club; part; component; category

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Bakumatsu period; closing days of the Tokugawa shogunate; end of the Edo period

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lunisolar calendar

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Tenpo calendar; Japan's last lunisolar calendar (in use from 1844 to 1872)

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Tenpō era (1830.12.10-1844.12.2)

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Kansei era (1789.1.25-1801.2.5)

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to have a bitter experience

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Hōreki era (1751.10.27-1764.6.2)

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supervisory authority; regulatory authority; right of management; custodial right

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governor; leader; ruler

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winning over; placation; gentle persuasion

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publication (e.g. of an article in a newspaper); carrying (e.g. a story); running (e.g. a serial); insertion (e.g. of an advertisement); printing; posting (e.g. on the web)

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article; news story; report; account

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grant; issue

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identical; same; one and the same; fair; equal treatment; without discrimination

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compilation (esp. dictionary, history, law code); editing

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each (person); everyone; individual; respective

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Middle Ages (in Japan esp. the Kamakura and Muromachi periods); medieval times; mediaeval times

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to receive; to take; to get somebody to do something; to have in one's pocket (a fight, match); to contract (a disease); to catch

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permission to publish

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straw cutter; short mane; pressing and cutting

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success; passing (e.g. exam); eligibility

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revision; proofreading

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printing

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