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hard to understand; incomprehensible; unintelligible

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Kansai dialect

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to omit; to leave out; to overtake; to pass; to say; to speak

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to have the nerve to

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white; unseasoned; undyed; very much; precisely; playing dumb

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barefaced (e.g. lie); shameless; transparent; pure white; very clear

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to be transparent; to show through

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Machida Kou (1962.1-)

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Sakai (city)

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Quanzhou (China); Chinchew

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very; much; greatly; a lot of

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to part (usu. of people); to part from; to separate (of a couple); to break up; to lose (e.g. one's mother); to be bereaved

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to act; to take action

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private house

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one night; all night; overnight; one evening

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to want; to wish for; to request; to demand; to seek; to search for

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husband

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polite; courteous; hospitable

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overbearing; coercive; pushy; forcible; high-handed

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fool; oaf; airhead

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return; coming back

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say; well; um; er

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to interfere; to butt in; to interrupt someone

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direct transmission (of mystery, skill, secret, etc.); initiation

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also called

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identical; same; one and the same; fair; equal treatment; without discrimination

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to compress; to shrink

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Awaji (former province located on Awaji Island in present-day Hyōgo Prefecture); Awaji (island)

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Island; insula; island; islet

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fisherman

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linguist

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dyeing; printing

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Naoya

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talent; gift; function; noh (theatre)

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the whole country

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Yamaguchi prefecture (Chūgoku area)

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Saga prefecture (Kyushu)

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being seen here and there; appearing in various places

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person; member

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sightseeing; watching; viewing; sightseer; watcher; spectator

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to assume the posture of praying; to press the palms and fingers of both hands together; to beg; to make a supplication; to see (something or someone of high status)

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confluence (of rivers); merge (of traffic); conflux; union (e.g. of forces); linking up; merging

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dropping in on the way; stopping off at; making a side trip; going the long way round; making a detour

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pine tree

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roughly woven fence

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salt pan (used for boiling seawater to make salt); cooking a fish inside a salt crust; candy made with a wrapping of sweetened rice flour (looking like a salt crust)

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bay; gulf; inlet

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small island; islet

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seeing Buddha

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holy priest; saint

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