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to break; to destroy; to wreck; to ruin; to break (a bill, etc.)

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I'm afraid to say; I'm sorry to say; unfortunately

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tiny bit

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right side; right-hand side

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to shake off; to throw off

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left; left hand side

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eleven; 11; jack (playing card); Hodgson's hawk-cuckoo (Cuculus fugax); Horsfield's hawk cuckoo

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entering; setting (of the Sun); containing; content; income; beginning

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style (of a work, author, artist, etc.); characteristics

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to mimic; to imitate

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falsely similar; counterfeit

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ability; competency; talent; skill; capacity

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cultivation; refinement; culture; education

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to manufacture; to produce; to raise (crops); to invent; to dream up; to create

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dignity; quality; grace; panache; level

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to be caught in; to be stuck in; to stop by; to drop in for a short visit; to get mixed up in (trouble); to get entangled in (a problem); to fall for (a trick)

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determined spirit; unyielding spirit; will

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kanji; Chinese character

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two characters; two letters; (arch.) garlic chives (Allium tuberosum); (arch.) Chinese chives

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to wind (of a road, etc.); to meander; to twist; to undulate; to surge; to swell

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good and evil; purity and impurity; voiced and unvoiced consonants

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Yamaoka Tesshuu (1836.7.23-1888.7.19)

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Bakumatsu period; closing days of the Tokugawa shogunate; end of the Edo period

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shogunate retainer; shogunate vassal

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thinker

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master; expert

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to be broad-minded enough to associate with various types of people; to possess a capacious mind

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proverb; saying; aphorism; maxim

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wicked person; evil person; scoundrel; bad thing; mischief

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(treating) equally; without discrimination; impartially; alike; in the same way

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to accept; to receive; to agree

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generosity; magnanimity; tolerance; length and capacity; measures

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to cut off; to cut up; to tear to pieces

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sword (esp. Japanese single-edged); katana; scalpel; chisel; burin; knife money (knife-shaped commodity money used in ancient China)

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pattern; design; body build; figure; essential qualities; character

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with a shiver (down one's spine); with a sudden chill

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electric current

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breathtaking

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Ichikawa Omezou

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one's mind

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have to (verb); must (verb); is indispensable; absolutely necessary

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to throw; to fling; to hurl; to neglect; to abandon; to leave alone

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right in half

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gently (falling)

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preconception; preconceived notion; prejudice

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bad; wrong; evil; no good; wicked; reprehensible

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to make something one's own; to appropriate for oneself

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society; the world; the times

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the reverse; other side; lining

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to trample down; to tread on; to ignore; to spurn

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