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Momoe

1

Masaharu

1

to be at a loss; to be in a corner

1

Christmas wreath

1

Amami

1

Fujino

2

to jest; to joke

1

unqualified or unlicensed person; (legally) incompetent

1

seat allocation; fee paid to an performer (at a vaudeville hall); appearance fee

1

grumbling; muttering; nonsense

1

Chrysanthemum Festival (the 9th day of the 9th lunar month) (one of the five annual festivals)

1

young at heart

1

automatic car; car with automatic transmission

1

one-legged

1

to go to the bottom of an affair; to inquire into the origin

1

boarding house; school dormitory; residential college (UK, etc.)

1

parched or roasted beans (or soybeans)

8

summer purification rites (held at shrines on the last day of the 6th lunar month)

1

Mi-na; Miina

1

chopstick stand; weaning ceremony

4

chrysanthemum sake; rice wine infused with chrysanthemum, served on the Chrysanthemum Festival (September 9); strong mirin, typical of Kaga and Higo provinces

1

glossy black

4

of noble birth; wellborn

1

Hinamatsuri (March 3); Girls' Festival; Dolls' Festival

1

leaving a cram school; dropping out of a cram school

9

binding; regulation; limit; binding period (e.g. phone or broadband contract); minimum contract term

1

Shouji

25

unfinished; unripe; unfermented narezushi; unfermented brine-pickled sushi; noh mask with slightly protruding horns and frizzy hair (representing a woman on her way to becoming a hannya)

1

New Year's greetings

1

white Christmas

1

palm reader

1

sowing beans (or pulses, etc.); scattering parched beans (to drive out evil spirits)

20

(way of) spending money; free spending

1

to twist (something)

1

(please) don't

1

poster girl

1

encounter

1

being sensitive to the heat; person who is sensitive to the heat

1

employee; employed person

1

type of hakama worn in ancient times

1

Christmas party

4

24 divisions of the solar year; 24 terms used to denote the changing of the seasons

1

alpha and omega

4

Christmas tree

2

intermission

1

Christmas carol; Christmas song

2

at my place

1

fellow sufferers pity each other

1

gossip; talk about town

1

Doll's Festival (March 3); Peach Festival

1