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Shinto ritual

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youngest child

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food (esp. staple food such as rice or wheat); provisions; rations; food supply

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office worker; company employee; company man; salaryman (stereotypical Japanese office worker)

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to mellow (e.g. personality); to be rounded; to huddle; to cower

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to draw in; to take in; to retract; to withdraw; to take back (e.g. words)

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housework; domestic chores; family affairs; household matters

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trade; buying and selling

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side job; sideline; subsidiary business

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to support; to maintain; to bring up; to raise; to adopt (a child); to cultivate (a habit, a quality, etc.)

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smartphone; smart phone

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hot spring

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I wonder; do you think?; I might; some kind; some stage; somehow

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to have a trade; to have a vocation

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somehow or other; for some reason or another; without knowing why

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sigh

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to leak out; to escape; to find expression; to give vent; to leak out; to be divulged

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vitality; ability to earn a living

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when push comes to shove; when needed; when necessity arises; when the moment arrives

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tournament

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(stage) appearance; performance; participation (e.g. in a tournament)

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prize money; monetary award; reward

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professional shogi player; professional go player

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despair; hopelessness

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spare time; free time; leisure time

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at least

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salary man

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presentation (of documents); submission (of an application, report, etc.); production (e.g. of evidence); introduction (e.g. of a bill); filing; turning in

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(means of) raising money

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careful thought; consideration; deliberation; reflection; rumination; pondering

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to cut into (a line, conversation, etc.); to force oneself into (e.g. a crowd); to wedge oneself into; to fall below (of stock prices, sales, etc.); to drop below

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scholar

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folklore studies; folkloristics

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with energy (of parties and such); enthusiastically; going all out

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Shinto shrine

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Garuda or Garua (man-bird deity and 'vahana' of Hindu-Buddhist myth)

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for generations; hereditary; generation after generation

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chief priest

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miko; shrine maiden; young girl or woman (trad. an unmarried virgin) who assists priests at shrines; medium; sorceress; shamaness

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divining sticks; counting; calculation

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astonishment; amazement; surprise; fright; shock

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to open one's eyes wide (in anger, surprise, etc.); to goggle at

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largest class; top category

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gaining nothing by; getting nowhere by

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girl (usu. attractive) with glasses; glasses-wearing girl

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trivial; not amounting to much; not a big deal

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directions; instructions; usage method

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unsuitable; inappropriate; improper

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to scratch; to perspire; to shovel; to paddle

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sincere; honest; faithful

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