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invitation

1

primary school; elementary school; grade school

1

drawing and manual arts (school subject); arts and crafts

1

room; wife (of someone of high rank); scabbard; Chinese "Encampment" constellation (one of the 28 mansions)

15

(outward) appearance; (proper) format (e.g. of an essay); form; appearances; decency; lip-service

1

boarding; wooden floor

1

floor; stage (for the narrator and the shamisen player); dining platform built across a river

3

work; operation; task

11

untidy (room, pile, etc.); messy; cluttered; disorderly; jumbled (e.g. thoughts); chaotic (lifestyle, atmosphere, etc.)

1

tool; implement

1

many; numerous; various; large number of

1

creation; production; creative work (novel, film, etc.); fabrication; fiction; invention

5

regarding ...; concerning ...; about ...; on ...; with respect to ...; in regard to ...

3

taste (in fashion, music, etc.); sense (e.g. of humour); flair

4

to happen to have; to have on hand; to carry (e.g. money)

1

last years; closing years; last days; closing days; end; last stage

1

Dewa (former province located in present-day Yamagata and Akita prefectures)

1

country; state; region; national government; central government; home (i.e. hometown, home country); province (of Japan)

4

seashore; coast; seaside; waterfront; beach

1

one person; being alone; being by oneself; being single; being unmarried; by oneself

14

daughter

4

to drift (to); to be washed ashore

1

soul; spirit; willpower; vitality; something as important as one's own life; something invaluable

4

start; commencement; beginning; initiation

7

preparation; arrangements; provision; getting ready; laying out (e.g. a meal)

6

work (film, book); production; creation; turning (something) out

4

kit

1

fierce; intense; severe; very; extremely; terribly

6

to cut; to cut through; to sever (connections, ties); to turn off (e.g. the light); to terminate (e.g. a conversation); to hang up (the phone); to punch (a ticket)

11

to stick; to paste; to stretch; to spread; to form (e.g. ice on a pond); to fill; to swell

1

this and that; such and such

1

will (to do something); drive; motivation; enthusiasm; eagerness

1

part (esp. of the body); region; site; cut (of meat)

1

pedestal

2

one school; one sect; one denomination; one party; one faction; one group

3

image (in one's mind); impression; (computer) image; depiction (e.g. of a product); rendition

8

to expand; to swell (out); to get big; to become inflated

4

to chase; to run after; to follow (a set order, a trend, etc.); to drive out; to get rid of; to drive (e.g. a herd)

1

crescent moon; young moon

3

stick-to-itiveness; perseverance; radical (esp. one that tends to ionize easily); root; indriya (faculty of the body having a specific function, i.e. the sensory organs)

1

name; title

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

near; neighbourhood; nearly (e.g. "it took nearly one year"); close to; shortly; soon

2

to fly away; to flee away; to scatter

1

to throw at; to fling at; to hurl at; to hurl (abuse, insults, etc.) at; to use (rough language) with (someone)

1

if anything; if pushed I'd say; if I had to say

1

danger; peril; hazard; risk

10

living thing; living creature; animal; life

1

to throw; to hurl; to give up; to abandon; to cast (a glance, shadow, doubt, etc.)

2

my; our; one's own

2