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fusuma; Japanese sliding screen

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square

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to partition; to divide; to direct; to manage; to settle accounts; to assume a crouching posture (at the start of a bout)

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four; four years of age; ten o'clock (old time system); Burakumin; cross grips

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Japanese-style room

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living room

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Buddhist (household) altar

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to provide; to arrange; to install

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Buddhist family chapel; altar room

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conclusion from reasoning, judgement or calculation based on something read or heard; reason; cause; meaning; circumstances; situation

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storage room; storeroom; lumber room

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part; assigning (allotment of) parts; role; duties

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place for drying laundry

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kitchen

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cum (e.g. bedroom-cum-study); holding both roles (e.g. Prime Minister and Minister of Foreign Affairs); and; in addition; concurrently; at the same time

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workshop; works

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outside; exterior; the open (air); other place; somewhere else

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independence; self-reliance; independence (e.g. of a nation); freedom; separation; isolation

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dead

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son; penis

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to set up (a house, store, etc.); to build; to have at the ready (e.g. a gun); to hold in preparation (e.g. a camera); to adopt a posture; to assume a stance; to put on an air

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Shizuoka (city, prefecture)

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Niigata (city, prefecture)

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to work (for); to be employed (at); to serve (as); to act (as); to conduct a religious service

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eight; 8

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being very busy; busyness

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that's the way it is; such is life

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somehow or other; for some reason or another; without knowing why

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child rearing; child raising; raising children; parenting

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failure; mistake; blunder

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isn't it?; let's ...; why don't we ...; how about we ...

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loungewear; comfortable clothing worn at home

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to change one's clothes

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to come back

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saying something (to someone); greeting; approaching (someone)

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therefore; consequently; accordingly; for that reason

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kind; gentle; considerate; generous; friendly; nice

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suspicious; dubious; doubtful; unsure; untrustworthy; unreliable; strange

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somewhere; anywhere; in some respects

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force; vigor; influence; authority; impetus; momentum

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to reseat oneself; to correct one's posture

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cooked rice; meal; food; one's living; livelihood

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wild; growing wild; living in the wild; (arch.) I

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mitsuba (Cryptotaenia japonica); Japanese honewort; Japanese honeywort; three-leaved; trefoil

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root (of a plant); root (of a tooth, hair, etc.); center (of a pimple, etc.); root (of all evil, etc.); source; one's true nature

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chopped burdock root (and sometimes carrot) cooked in sugar and soy sauce

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walnut (Juglans spp., esp. Juglans regia)

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food with dressing on it (e.g. salad)

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crimson glory vine (species of grapevine, Vitis Coignetiae)

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raw; uncooked; natural; as it is; unprotected (sex); live (i.e. not recorded); inexperienced

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