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entering the priesthood; priest; man with a shaven head; bald-headed monster

4

hairy; thickly haired; shaggy

1

feathers; plumage; down

11

(of) Japanese descent; non-Japanese of Japanese descent; nikkeijin; company, etc. set up with Japanese capital; company managed by Japanese or non-Japanese of Japanese descent

1

travelling expenses; traveling expenses

1

delicacy; tact; considerateness; sensitivity; thoughtfulness

1

coming; going; being (somewhere); come; go; stay

1

contagion; infection

3

rattling; clattering; trembling; shivering; whining; grumbling

4

degree; extent

1

sentence; composition; text; the literary arts (as opposed to the military arts); academia; statement

4

energy; energy; strength; energy source; energy resource; food energy

5

(arch.) the art of war; (arch.) martial arts; military force; the sword; valor; bravery

5

it cannot be helped; there's nothing for it; it's no use fighting back; it's hopeless; there is no way out of it

2

all; every; all kinds of

1

season; weather

1

zhen (one of the trigrams of the I Ching: thunder, east)

2

order; command; life; destiny; fate

2

prayer; wish; vow

2

evening; last night; yesterday evening

2

to sleep like a log; to sleep deeply

1

the sun

1

sneak thief; petty thief; cat burglar

1

north-east; Tōhoku (northernmost six prefectures of Honshu); Tohoku

1

newspaper company

1

broadcasting station; broadcaster

1

dots; spots; bit by bit; little by little; here and there; scattered

1

to collect evidence

1

dark; dull; unsatisfactory; dissatisfying; unattractive; unappealing

3

young child; toddler; child over 1 but not yet of school age

2

younger; junior

1

sailor suit; middy uniform

1

lodging; inn; house; home; home of a servant's parents (or guarantor, etc.)

1

west entrance; west exit

1

for generations; hereditary; generation after generation

2

Yoyogi Park

1

wickedness; evil; iniquity; wrongness

4

to run up onto (e.g. sidewalk); to run aground; to be stranded

1

to be infected; to be contagious

1

Halphas

1

opening credits; title sequence; theme song (played during the opening credits of a TV show, etc.); overprint

1

assistant language teacher; ALT; foreign national serving as an assistant teacher of English in a Japanese classroom; alanine aminotransferase; ALT

1

certainty; reality; regular; permanent; samadhi (state of intense concentration achieved through meditation)

1

United Nations; UN

1

piling up high (food in a bowl); filling (a bowl); heaped bowl

1

remarkably; noticeably

1

grains of sand

3

abstaining from smoking; quitting smoking; No Smoking!; Smoking Prohibited!

1

combustibility; inflammability; combustible; inflammable

1

periodic; regular; routine

1