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birthday

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next month

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congratulation; congratulations; celebration; congratulatory gift; present

10

what date?; what's the date?; when?

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two days later; day after next; next day but one

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taking a story with a grain of salt; discounting half the story

1

memorial day; commemoration day; anniversary

6

regarding highly; attaching importance to

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obsession; unreasonable but compulsive idea

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boisterously; roughly; briskly

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it's hard to tell a poor thinker from a sleeping one; they to whom only bad ideas come might as well be asleep; inadequate ideas are worse than none at all

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to waste time

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knothole; peep-hole; bad eyes

1

to beat vigorously; to rain strikes upon someone; to tan someone's hide; to mercilessly pummel; to beat the daylights out of

1

to say; to spatter; to prate; to prattle; to babble

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to celebrate; to congratulate; to present (a gift) in celebration; to drink in celebration; to wish for (a happy future, good fortune, etc.); to pray for

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rejection; expulsion; boycott; ostracism

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abolition; repeal

1

summary; digest; outline; abstract

3

for convenience; as a matter of convenience

1

real; actual; true

1

to engrave an inscription; to call (designate) itself; to mark; to label

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to (an extent); up to; doesn't amount to doing ...; not significant enough to require ...; even if ...

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Matsutani Miyoko (1926.2.15-)

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Edo period (1603-1868)

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Yasumori

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romantic story; colorful story; colourful story; highly embellished story

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in history; ever; historical

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to be misleading

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choice; selection; pickup (phonograph); stylus bar; pickup truck; pickup

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outline; summary; gist; in brief

1

question; interpellation

1

someone (unspecified, but someone in particular); a certain person

4

fine play

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trauma (usu. psychological)

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to get one's head around; to think about

1

revengeful ghost; apparition

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ghost bound to a specific physical location (usu. where death occurred)

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guardian spirit

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sleep

1

to hint at; to intimate; to suggest; to allude to; to imply

2

hearer; listener; audience; interviewer; questioner

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description; account

3

to put one's heart and soul (into); to completely devote oneself (to)

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author; writer; novelist; artist

2

texture

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personnel; members; lineup (of a team); announcement of next day's match-ups

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absentee

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protective household deity in Tōhoku, appearing as a red-faced child spirit with bobbed hair

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creakily; close (i.e. with no room to spare)

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