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ladybug (Harmonia axyridis); ladybird

57

head; hair (on one's head); mind; brains; leader; chief; top

24

worldly-wise man

1

wild; uninhibited; extravagant; rampant

1

to wield; to brandish; to display (one's knowledge); to show off; to abuse (one's power); to manipulate someone

2

cherry blossom

37

your; indicates high rank or status; indicates love and respect (usu. for an older person)

6

garden (esp. man-made); orchard; park; place; location

8

love; affection; attachment; craving; agape; Ireland

9

old-timer; veteran; senior; old stump; old roots

1

pluralizing suffix (esp. for people and animals; formerly honorific)

113

white feather

52

black; black go stone; guilt; guilty person

6

fifth degree (of the Japanese and Chinese pentatonic scale)

4

red; crimson; red-containing colour (e.g. brown, pink, orange); Red (i.e. communist); red light (traffic); red ink (i.e. in finance or proof-reading); (in) the red

11

child born within a year of another; children born in consecutive years

3

three; 3

20

sisters

6

illustration; picture; sketch; drawing; figure

1

thin-culmed dwarf bamboo (growing in clusters); Japanese transverse bamboo flute (high-pitched; usu. with seven holes); sliver (strand of loose fibers)

2

to float; to become merry; to be cheerful; to become loose; to become unsteady; to feel out of it; to be cut off (e.g. from those around you)

2

binding (of a book); design (of a book cover)

2

text (of a book, document, etc.); body (of a letter); this passage; this sentence

1

design

1

proofreading; correction of press; calibration

1

existence; possession; having; limited company

1

Tokyo

1

publication

1

service center; call center

1

editing; compilation

2

tableland; plateau

1

Nanae

1

this; last (couple of years, etc.); these; you (as in "you liar")

84

story; tale; narrative; account; fable; legend

1

novel; (short) story

1

contribution (to a newspaper, magazine, etc.); submission; post (on a blog, social media, etc.)

1

site (usu. website); sight; payable on sight

1

novelist; fiction writer

1

announcement; publication; presenting; statement; communique; making known

1

same name; homonym

1

work (e.g. book, film, composition, etc.); opus; performance; production

1

novelizing; novelising; adapting a movie, game, etc. into a book

1

on the occasion of; at the time of

1

big; large; drastic; full-width cloth (approx. 72 cm wide for traditional Japanese clothing; approx. 140 cm wide for Western clothing)

1

improvement (to a piece of writing or painting); revision; correction; touching up

1

amendment; correction; revision; modification; alteration; retouching

1

to add; to add up; to increase; to gather (e.g. speed); to include; to count in

6

fiction

1

be; is

185

actual existence; real existence; existing in real life

1