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return (home); repatriation; feedback (in an electronic circuit, biological system, etc.)

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to show up; to appear; to turn up

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to carry off; to run away with; to sweep away; to take entirely for oneself; to monopolize

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great joy; delight; jubilation

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palm (of the hand)

3

property

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savior; saviour; rescuer; Messiah; Jesus Christ

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calling (someone a thief, coward, etc.); branding (as); denouncing

2

exaggerated; overdone; overblown; hyperbolic; bombastic; grandiose

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famine; crop failure; chronic shortage (e.g. of water)

2

in so doing; when you do so; in this regard; on this occasion; some time during that period

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reducing the number of mouths one needs to feed (esp. by giving up children for adoption, apprenticeship, etc.)

3

child; children

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live-in domestic service; live-in apprenticeship; public duty; public service

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one's employer's house; one's employer; place of apprenticeship

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mostly; ordinarily; probably; most; almost all; ordinary

3

brothel

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girl; daughter; baby girl; young woman

2

prostitute

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boy; son; baby boy; young man

5

male prostitute

1

inheritance; something given or received

1

if only (you) have; as long as (you) have; whenever (you) have

1

few decades; many decades; several decades

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to pass (the night); to spend; to reveal; to divulge; to prove; to verify

2

to pull; to tug; to draw (attention, sympathy, etc.); to attract (e.g. interest); to draw back (e.g. one's hand); to draw in (one's chin, stomach, etc.); to draw (a card, mahjong tile, etc.)

5

habit; (social) custom; practice; convention

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adult; grown-up

2

criticism; blame; censure; attack; reproach

4

Edo period (1603-1868)

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Yoshiwara

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(licensed) red light district

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prostitute; harlot

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to wake; to wake up; to wear off (of drunkenness, anaesthesia, etc.); to regain consciousness; to come to one's senses; to be disillusioned

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that day; the very same day

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to sleep (lying down); to go to bed; to lie in bed; to lie down; to sleep (with someone, i.e. have intercourse); to lie flat (e.g. of hair); to lie idle (of funds, stock, etc.)

4

co-sleeping; sleeping together

2

role; assignment; position (of responsibility); post; part (in a play, film, etc.); role

2

sleeping together; sleeping with; sharing a bed

1

honorific/polite/humble prefix; honorific suffix

3

service; ministry; attendance; offering goods at a reduced price; providing a service for free

4

imposing stance; daunting pose

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crotch; groin; area between the thighs

3

penis; phallus

2

to kneel (in respect); to genuflect

2

painstaking; careful; meticulous; scrupulous; detailed; elaborate

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to lick all over; to run one's tongue over

1

sheep (Ovis aries)

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to get jealous; (lit.) to grow horns

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naked body; nudity

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