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reference book (work)

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work; book; (a book) by; obvious; striking

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tide; current; sea water; opportunity; chance; thin soup of fish or shellfish boiled in seawater

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handbook

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Joel; Joelle

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Levy

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text; script; this book

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July; seventh month of the lunar calendar

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(our) company; (my) company; small company; small shrine

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publication; issue

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first appearance

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present age; present day; today; modern era; modern times

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special issue; extra issue; special number

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Mephisto

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May; fifth month of the lunar calendar

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author (usu. of a particular book); writer

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road; path; way; set of practices; Buddhist teachings; Taoism; modern administrative region of Japan (Hokkaido)

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birth; birthplace; born in (country, month, imperial era, zodiac year, etc.)

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eye; eyeball; eyesight; sight; look; stare; notice

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prefix for forming ordinal numbers

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counter for occurrences; a time; an instance; inning (baseball); round; episode; chapter

6

big prize; first prize

2

special award; special prize

1

winning (a prize)

5

debut; doing something for the first time; starting anew; starting afresh

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shadow

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mystery

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this piece; this work

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mystery writer; detective fiction writer; crime author

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prize; award

4

long (e.g. novel, film)

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planting a field with the same crop each year; repeated cultivation; collaborative literary work; story made up by several writers working on it in turn; series (of novels); cycle (of poems, songs)

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collection of short stories; collected short stories

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division (of a larger group); branch; field; class (subclass); group; category

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dragon god; dragon king; naga

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Ooyabu Haruhiko (1935.2.22-1996.2.26)

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mediation; agency; agent; mediator; middleman; go-between

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Yamamoto Shuugorou

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crab

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sunflower (Helianthus annuus)

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(dead) body; corpse

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one eye; one of one's eyes

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monkey (esp. the Japanese macaque, Macaca fuscata); ape; sly person; idiot; hick; sliding wooden bolt (for holding a door or window shut); clasp used to control the height of a pot-hook

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Solomon Islands; Solomon

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Rat-Man (comics)

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ogre; demon; spirit of a deceased person; ogre-like person (i.e. fierce, relentless, merciless, etc.); it (in a game of tag, hide-and-seek, etc.); Chinese "ghost" constellation (one of the 28 mansions); very

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sound of footsteps; sense or sign that something is approaching

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shooting star; falling star; meteor; blaze (wide white stripe down the face of a horse)

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sphere; globe; orb

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lover; sweetheart; boyfriend; girlfriend

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