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short (e.g. story, film)

4

the preceding year; the previous year; last year

2

debut novel

1

collection; compilation

15

publication; issue

11

imitation of classical styles

1

aestheticism; pursuit of beauty; obsession with beautiful things

1

pitch; tone; time; tempo; mood; tendency

1

anthology; collection of works

11

omen

1

image (in one's mind); impression; (computer) image; depiction (e.g. of a product); rendition

1

to incorporate; to include; to fill (a vessel) with

1

setting sun

1

kernel; core; nucleus; center; centre

1

almost all; nearly all

1

receiving in advance (e.g. wages, interest); taking before others; anticipation; being ahead of (e.g. the times); prefetch; anticipatory completion (i.e. finishing another's sentence)

1

precocity; early ripening; premature development

2

destined; predestined; fated; fateful

1

flowers budding; blooming; flowering; showing results; becoming popular; blooming

1

consistency; coherence; one kan (approx. 3.75 kg, 8.3 lb); one piece of sushi

1

coexistence

4

to be(come) intertwined; to be entangled

2

(both) openly and covertly; publicly and privately; implicitly and explicitly

1

mobilization of labor services (e.g. in wartime)

1

Kanagawa prefecture (Kanto area)

1

young person

3

information; experience; knowledge; observation

1

origin; source; base; basis; cause; ingredient; material

1

multi-

1

lunch; noon; midday; daytime; waking up; getting up

1

radio broadcast announcing acceptance of the Potsdam Declaration and the end of the war (recording of Hirohito; broadcast August 15, 1945)

1

Your Majesty; His Majesty; Her Majesty

2

court noble; nobility; Imperial Court

1

mimicking someone's speech; imitating someone's way of speaking; mimicry

1

to bear; to stand; to endure; to put up with

2

difficult to ...; hard to ...

2

squirrel's foot fern (Davallia mariesii); Lepisorus thunbergianus (species of fern); color of clothing layers under one's overcoat (light green on blue); ancient women's hairstyle; clothing patterned using squirrel's foot fern

2

difficulty; trouble; accident; disaster; fault; defect

1

all ages; eternity

1

good; advantage; sake; purpose; consequence; result

1

peace; tranquility; tranquillity; (arch.) happy-go-lucky

1

greed; craving; desire; appetite; hunger; avarice

1

be; is

1

unconditional surrender

1

mess; sorry state; -ways; -wards; in the act of ...; just as one is ...

1

we; us

1

clear solution; clean decision

1

dinner; evening meal

1

to deceive; to falsify; to dodge; to beg the question (issue, difficulties); to varnish over; to gloss over

1

fellow students

1