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Taeko

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(Ogura) Hyakunin Isshu; classical Japanese anthology of one hundred Japanese waka by one hundred poets; hyakunin isshu karuta; hyakunin isshu poetry cards; deck of 200 cards, the 100 waka of the Hyakunin Isshu split between them, to be matched together during the game

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ability; skill; facility

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meek; quiet; docile; mysterious; marvelous; marvellous

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expression; look; countenance; face

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misfortune; bad luck; ill luck; ill fortune

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to be piled up; to lie on top of one another; to come one after another; to happen over and over; to overlap (each other); to occur at the same time

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accident; incident; trouble; circumstances; reasons

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honorific; term of respect; polite expression; honorific language

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gentleman

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handsome; shapely; clean-cut (features)

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murder; killing; murderer

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pish; pooh; I see; oh; indeed

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trademark

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with profound (often hidden) meaning; pregnant with significance; meaningful; suggestive; interesting

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to speak disparagingly of; to speak very ill of; to run down; to trash; to slam; to lay into

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dejectedly; dispiritedly; despondently; gloomily

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assumption; supposition; hypothesis; supposition

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

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evidence; proof

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there is nothing; having nothing

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as (much) as possible; as (far) as possible

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to sense; to perceive; to understand; to comprehend; to attain enlightenment

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(frustratingly) slow; tedious; sluggish; roundabout (e.g. explanation); exasperating; irritating

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conclusion (of an argument, discussion, study, etc.); conclusion

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swing; shake; appearance; behaviour; pretence; pretense; (a customer) coming to restaurant, ryokan, etc. without a reservation or introduction

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drawing; painting; picture

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astonishment; amazement; surprise; fright; shock

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long-awaited; much-awaited

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to be possible; to be conceivable; to be likely; to be probable

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chestnut-color; chestnut-colour

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staring (e.g. eyes); goggling; glaring

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forbidding look; uncanny look

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to shrink back; to wince; to flinch; to recoil

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burn; scald; (fig.) getting one's fingers burned (e.g. poor investment, mixing with the wrong people)

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to carry on one's back; to bear; to take (responsibility); to assume; to suffer (an injury); to sustain (a wound)

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one way or another; in many ways; in various ways

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distortion; stretch; strained interpretation; technicality; casuistry; sophistry

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fingerprint

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to wipe off; to wipe up

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crime; criminal act; offence; offense

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confession

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tree; shrub; wood; timber; wooden clappers (signalling the beginning or end of a performance)

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unchanged (from long ago); as it was in the past; same old; traditional

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wooden building; wooden architecture

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bungalow; one-story house

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landlord; landlady; house owner; home owner; head of the household

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repetition; repeat; replication; recursion; iteration

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pan; pot; saucepan; stew; hot pot

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setting; installing; setting up (meeting, conference, etc.); stage setting; setting (of a novel, movie, play, etc.)

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