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precise; accurate; appropriate; exactly the right

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half-eaten

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granny; grandma; gran; old lady; old woman

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cake made from pounded horse chestnuts and mochi rice

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to turn back; to go back; to repeat; to send back; to bring back; to retrace one's steps

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train fare

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tedious; boring; being fed up with

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3 o'clock; afternoon snack (eaten around 3 o'clock); three ages of Buddhism (following the death of Gautama Buddha; age of the true law, age of the copied law, and age of the degeneration of the law); three ages of the dharma

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happening; (unexpected) incident; unforeseen event; surprising occurrence

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Kyoto-Osaka; Kyoto and Osaka

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book; document; calligraphy (esp. Chinese); penmanship; handwriting; letter

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Island; insula; island; islet

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looking for a particular person or thing; searching high and low; hunting for; picking out; singling out

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Momoyamagoryoumae

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to come alive; to get going; to start to move

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signboard; sign; draw; attraction; reputation (of a shop); name

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this area; around here; this point; this much; this extent

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how long; how far; how much

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immediately; right away; on the spot

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to be able to manage somehow or another

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unskillful; poor; awkward; imprudent; untactful

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to make a mistake; to be incorrect; to be mistaken

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moving about in confusion; going every which way; going this way and that

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better; preferable; more; increase; (arch.) increase; (arch.) growth

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Tanba (former province located in parts of present-day Kyoto, Hyogo and Osaka prefectures)

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shop; small store; business; firm

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private house

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transfer (trains, buses, etc.); change; switch (to another ideology, party, system, method, etc.); change; switching (stock); chromosomal crossover

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site; point on a map; spot

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from here; from this place

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what is to be done?; what should (I) do?; what (am I) to do?

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to take a taxi

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return; coming back

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shoe; shoes; boots; footwear; footgear

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to take off (clothes, shoes, etc.); to undress

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to fold up; to fold into layers

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1,000 yen bill

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better safe than sorry; one should err on the side of caution

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banknote; bill; note; paper money

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taxi fare

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okonomiyaki; savoury pancake containing meat or seafood and vegetables

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shop; store; somebody who sells (something) or works as (something); somebody with a (certain) personality trait; house; roof

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to stick; to paste; to stretch; to spread; to form (e.g. ice on a pond); to fill; to swell

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discord; (on) bad terms (with)

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in comparison to; rather than

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to mind (negative nuance); to care about; to worry; to pay undue (amount of) attention to (something)

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to spit out; to eject; to dump

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solitude; loneliness; isolation

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root (of a plant); root (of a tooth, hair, etc.); center (of a pimple, etc.); root (of all evil, etc.); source; one's true nature

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oh!; oh?; my!

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