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breaststroke (swimming)

3

destination; place one stays during a trip

1

traveller; traveler; wayfarer; tourist

1

to be brought forward (e.g. by three hours); to be moved up; to be hasty; to be rash; to quicken; to speed up

2

to be punctual

2

wheat straw; barley straw

1

hat; cap

1

emotional attachment; attitude (expressing emotion); meditative pose (e.g. an actor); posing for effect

1

student days

6

to arrange one's hair; to tidy up one's hair

1

beginning of spring

1

eating out; dining out

2

restaurant

4

detective bureau; detective agency; investigation firm

1

chief; head (of an office, of a laboratory)

12

foot; paw; leg; gait; pace; bottom structural component (i.e. radical) of a kanji; (arch.) money

6

Hida (city, region of Gifu Prefecture, Edo-period province)

2

companions; friends; comrades; mates; partners

2

principal occupation; core business

4

to catch

1

one's body alone; having nothing except one's body; just oneself (with no belongings)

1

insignificant; trifling; paltry; cottage (industry); tiny (company)

2

diversified management; diversification

1

judicial scrivener; judicial clerk; person qualified to prepare legal documents, handle real-estate transactions, etc.

1

manager; proprietor

4

skim reading; diagonal reading (e.g. as a simple code)

1

get away from me!

2

research; investigation; enquiry; inquiry; study

1

OK; okay

2

smooth; meticulous; painstaking; detailed

1

novelist; fiction writer

11

client; sender

5

rock-climbing

1

thrill

1

outer wall

5

the heat is off; things calm down; the excitement dies down

1

numbness; going to sleep (of a limb); pins and needles

5

to step forward; to volunteer

2

future; prospects; outlook; journey ahead; distance yet to cover

1

conflagration; fire

2

for emergency use

1

break in the deadlock

2

one's habitual behaviour (behavior)

2

unlucky year; critical year; year (esp. age 25 and 42 for men, 19 and 33 for women) that is considered unlucky (orig. in Onmyōdō); bad year; annus horribilis

1

to understand from experience

1

Shiina

4

entire family is affected (disease, etc.); whole family

1

bitter experience; misery; distress; grief; sad thoughts; hardship

1

that's enough!; cut it out!; get a life!

1

distance; journey; itinerary; path (e.g. to one's goal); way; process

1