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pitiful; heartbreaking; heartrending; touching; tragic; sad

2

university; college; former central university of Kyoto (established under the ritsuryo system for the training of government administrators); the Great Learning (one of the Four Books)

1

friend

3

sightseeing; tourism

1

man; male; masculine gender

3

hammer; hopeless swimmer; complete beginner at swimming; someone who sinks like a stone

1

guest spending the night (i.e. at a hotel)

2

employee; worker

2

to rush on; to attack; to swoop down on

2

violence; murder; crime

1

to die

2

serious or slight injury; major and minor injuries

1

to bear; to carry on one's back; to take responsibility for; to accept a duty; to receive (wound); to incur (damage)

2

crime; criminal act; offence; offense

5

after

4

suicide

2

why; how

4

that kind of; of the sort; of the kind; such

2

to arrive at (e.g. a decision); to reach (a stage); to lead to (a place); to get to; in the extreme case of; (arch.) to come

2

note left by a dead person; suicide note; testamentary letter; posthumous work

1

was

86

he; him; boyfriend

11

serious; honest; sober; grave; earnest; steady

1

student (esp. a university student)

1

testimony; (verbal) evidence

1

smoothly; easily; readily

1

smallness; small item; short month (i.e. having fewer than 31 days); elementary school; smaller (of two things, places, etc. with the same name); inferior; younger (of two people with the same name)

6

to take over; to hand over

1

not only ... (but also); not just; as well as

2

another; one more; not quite; not very good; lacking

1

incomprehensible; mysterious; inexplicable; inscrutable; enigmatic; baffling

2

time; pause; space; room

2

reopening; resumption; restarting

4

day in question; appointed day; that very day; the day (of issue, publication, etc.)

2

inside; within

4

dress

14

little girl; maiden; young lady; (arch.) female between 17 and 20 years old (ritsuryo period)

28

we

4

the same age

1

that is so; that is right; it looks to me; people say that; it is said that; I hear that

14

smoke; fumes

1

protection; safeguard; guardianship; preservation; conservation

1

victim; injured party; sufferer

1

one's line of sight; one's gaze; one's eyes (looking); glance; gaze; look

10

large; big; great; prominent; -sized; as big as; university

3

beginning; start; outset; at first; at the beginning; initially

2

(suffering) damage; injury; harm

2

to be conceivable that; to be thinkable that

1

however; but

11

corpse; remains

2