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firefly (Luciola cruciata); lightning bug; glowworm

5

billowy; fluffy; cloudlike; tenderly; amiably; softly

1

light; illumination; ray; happiness; hope; influence; power

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spring; springtime; New Year; prime (of life); height (of one's prosperity); adolescence

1

rare; uncommon; new; novel; fine; nice

3

bridge

1

stone paving; cobble paving; stone steps; check (pattern); pavé (rectangular dessert, usu. made from chocolate or several layers of sponge cake)

2

moss; short plants resembling moss (incl. other bryophytes, lichens, very small spermatophytes, etc.)

1

shrub; shrubbery

2

maintenance; servicing; putting in place; development; improvement

2

to lose sight of; to miss

1

blue; azure; green; pale (facial color); gray; unripe

2

sweet (e.g. young girls, flowers blooming); touchingly lovely; cute; pitiful; pitiable

1

growing en masse in one location (of plants); living gregariously (of animals); living in flocks, herds, colonies, etc.; all living creatures

1

soft windflower (Anemone flaccida)

2

to bloom; to flower; to blossom; (arch.) to rise up (of breaking waves)

5

to hold out; to extend (e.g. a hand); to present; to submit; to sacrifice; to give (up)

2

to go mad

2

harmful; hazardous

1

year; counter for years (e.g. of an era), grades (e.g. school); period of an apprentice's contract (usu. ten years)

3

looks; features

3

un-Japanese in appearance or character

2

parents; both parents

1

which way; which direction; which one (esp. of two alternatives); who

3

foreign country

1

to change; to alter; to transform; to reform; to revise; to amend

1

aconite (esp. species Aconitum japonicum); wolfsbane; monkshood; traditional bugaku hat

5

leaf; blade (of grass); (pine) needle; frond; foliage

1

root (of a plant); root (of a tooth, hair, etc.); center (of a pimple, etc.); root (of all evil, etc.); source; one's true nature

2

poison; toxicant; harm; evil influence; ill will; spite

2

skin

1

to be sore; to be inflamed; to be bleary; to be dissipated; to be dissolute; to indulge in

1

to live (of humans); to reside; to inhabit; to dwell; to abide

1

deep inside; innermost place

1

plant; vegetation

2

to hold up over one's head; to hold aloft; to hold over something; to hold (one's hands) out (e.g. towards a fire); to hold up to shade one's eyes, face, etc.

4

mirage

1

to flicker; to quiver; to waver; to sway

1

phantom; vision; something fleeting; short-lived dream; fabled item; mythical thing

1

as if; as though

1

without leaving any trace

1

large tree

1

invisibly; secretly; privately

1

you; buddy; monarch; ruler; he; she

4

to become good-looking; to start looking appropriate (for something)

1

type; style; mold; mould; kata (set sequence of positions and movements in martial arts); style (in kabuki, noh, etc.); convention

1

tone (of voice); manner of talking

4

mother

5

Onmyōdō; way of Yin and Yang; occult divination system based on the Taoist theory of the five elements

2

master; teacher; stable master

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