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Nishio Ishin

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tide; current; sea water; opportunity; chance

1

reformation; revolution; renewal; Meiji Restoration

1

Mephisto

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prize; award

2

winning (a prize)

2

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

2

work by the same author (artist, etc.); work in the same style; same way of making

1

nonsense; silly talk; drivel; rubbish

1

series

7

story; tale; narrative; account; fable; legend

1

handsome youth (male); pretty boy

1

writing; book

3

cartoon; comic; comic strip; manga

2

original author (of a work)

1

weekly publication

4

Shounen Jump (weekly magazine)

2

serialization; serialisation; serial story

5

Medaka Box

1

volume (of book); reel (of film); scroll (of books or paintings); roll (paper, etc.)

3

illness

2

separate volume; extra issue; supplement; additional volume; supplementary volume

1

marguerite (Chrysanthemum frutescens); Japanese women's hairstyle comprised of a long braid tied up in a loop with a ribbon (ca. 1885)

1

publication (e.g. of an article in a newspaper); carrying (e.g. a story); running (e.g. a serial); insertion (e.g. of an advertisement); printing; posting (e.g. on the web)

3

beheading; decapitation

2

large cut (e.g. of meat); last piece of the day's programme; last act of a play; comic dialogue as the last item in vaudeville, music hall, etc.

2

unevenness (of colour, paint, etc.); irregularity; unevenness (of quality, results, behaviour, etc.); inconsistency; fickleness; capriciousness

1

to shine; to glitter; to be bright

1

nautical mile

1

ceramics; pottery; porcelain

1

monthly publication; monthly issue

2

in (of a ball, in tennis, etc.); inside the line; in; inside; enter here; enter

1

remaining bony parts (of a fish after filleting); flaw (esp. of a person); fault; rice chaff; rough; crude

1

river; stream; River; the ... river

1

under; underexposure; underdevelopment; under par

1

bridge

1

morning; morning coat; breakfast set (often a drink and toast); breakfast special

1

Saint; St.; S.; sacred; holy; pure

1

older brother; elder brother; young man; buddy; fella

1

Tezuka Osamu Cultural Prize

1

short (e.g. story, film)

1

original work

1

finishing reading; non-serialised story (e.g. in a magazine); complete story; breaks and pauses (in a sentence)

1

relatively; comparatively

1

writing (e.g. as a profession)

1

novel; (short) story

1

illustration

1

gathering of talented people; group of geniuses

2

company; association; regional Chinese god of the earth (or a village built in its honour); counter for companies, shrines, etc.

2

December; twelfth month of the lunar calendar

2