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navy blue; deep blue

9

duffle coat

7

irritating; annoying; tedious (work, person, etc.); boring; depressing; dark (e.g. story)

3

New Year's card

3

New Year's Day; New Year's morning; morning of New Year's Day

2

ticklish; embarrassed; awkward; ill at ease (esp. when receiving public praise)

5

school of one's (first, second) choice

5

(within) the (Tokyo) metropolitan area

16

Tokyo University

1

one's youth; one's youthful days (years); the flower of one's youth; the springtime of one's life

1

former imperial university

1

red gate (esp. at Tokyo University)

1

Sanshirou

2

Yasuda Auditorium (at Tokyo University, site of violent student protest in 1969)

1

roadside tree; row of trees

1

highest institute of education

1

sightseeing spot; tourist attraction

1

taking on (a challenge); attempt; try; tackling; challenging (someone to a contest)

11

being able to hear something (clearly); clearness of a sound; reputation; renown; impression (that something gives off); respectability

1

to be pretentious; to put on airs

2

3 o'clock; afternoon snack (eaten around 3 o'clock); three ages of Buddhism (following the death of Gautama Buddha; age of the true law, age of the copied law, and age of the degeneration of the law); three ages of the dharma

9

sleet; daikon shavings; grated daikon; shaved ice topped with honey

2

lead colour; lead color

9

to walk; to move forward; to make progress

1

fickle; inconstant; capricious; having many romantic interests

5

superior; first-class; excellent; (that's) just fine!; bring it on!

3

sworn younger brother; junior male peer (in a club, group, etc.)

1

to be annoying; to be troublesome

2

to come and go; to go back and forth

1

to pass (examination)

4

national university

1

heading; headline; index; headword

3

to catch one's attention

1

rugged; scraggy; angular; gnarled

6

to inform; to report

2

air con; air conditioner; air conditioning

6

to be absorbed in reading

7

literary magazine

1

suddenly (rising to fame, etc.); instantly; immediately; one bound; one leap

3

secluded inner room

1

suicide by jumping (e.g. from a tall building)

2

isolation; being alone; being friendless

2

to assume an air of importance; to be self-important; to put on airs

2

to step on; to trample down; to tread on

8

the literary world; literary circles

1

to become famous overnight; to burst into fame

1

precocity; early ripening; premature development

1

to twist; to wrench; to puzzle over; to defeat easily

1

reporter; journalist

2

gossip; government OSI procurement; GOSIP

1