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flower pattern

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fresh

1

pressing; urging; demanding; demand

2

to chide; to rebuke; to reprove

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natural posture (esp. in judo); natural stance; natural attitude; relaxed manner; calm manner

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dressing (esp. in kimono); fitting; helping someone get dressed; outer garment (in kabuki)

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tortoise shell

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

1

obi; kimono sash; paper wrapper on books, CDs, etc.; band; belt; cingulum

1

showy; loud; gay; flashy; gaudy

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exactly; surely; right then; just then; just (about to); on the verge (of doing or happening)

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dressed up (in fine clothes)

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to hold between (e.g. one's fingers, chopsticks); to grip (from both sides); to put between; to sandwich between; to catch (e.g. a finger in a door); to trap; to insert (e.g. a break into proceedings)

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bottom; buttocks

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quarrel; brawl; fight; squabble; scuffle; argument

2

arbitration; intercession; mediation

1

Shinto shrine

5

to begin to run; to start running; to break into a run

1

someone who gets in the way without serving any useful purpose; fly in the ointment; buttinsky; third wheel

1

established practice; custom

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event; function

1

cart (esp. a food cart); stall; festival float; portable shrine dedicated to a god and shaped like a house; stage prop fashioned after a large building; framework (of a house, etc.)

1

to overflow; to brim over; to flood

1

seldom; rarely; scarcely

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carefree; optimistic; careless; reckless; heedless; happy-go-lucky

2

crisis management

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one hour

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purpose; goal; aim; objective; intention

1

mountain; hill; mine (e.g. coal mine); heap; pile; crown (of a hat); thread (of a screw)

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torii; Shinto shrine archway

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to be petrified; to be unable to move; to be paralyzed (with horror); to be stupefied (with amazement)

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outside light

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light source

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deserted (esp. store, market, town, streets); quiet; inactive (business, trade, etc.); slack; idle; free

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sign of life; human presence; humanity; humaneness

2

to go under; to pass under; to dive (into or under the water); to evade; to get around; to survive

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(flight of) stone steps; stone stairway

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grounds (esp. of shrines and temples); compound; churchyard; precincts

1

cold; chill; cold weather; cold wave; cold air

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coupled with; together

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solemn (ceremony, atmosphere, etc.); austere; grave; majestic; dignified; stately

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back (esp. of a building, etc.); rear; behind

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cemetery; graveyard

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for generations; hereditary; generation after generation

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gravesite; tomb

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visit (to a shrine, grave, etc.); worship

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happy ending

4

road approaching a shrine

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offertory box

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money

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