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inside a car (train, bus, etc.)

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Tsu (city in Mie); harbour; harbor; ferry

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interest; entertainment; pleasure; implicit comparison (style of the Shi Jing)

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Shintanabe Station

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passing each other; missing (meeting) each other; failing to meet; (being at) cross purposes; discrepancy

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

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half-eaten

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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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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 make a mistake; to be incorrect; to be mistaken

4

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

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

1

discord; (on) bad terms (with)

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to spit out; to eject; to dump

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solitude; loneliness; isolation

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woven straw mat (orig. made of wild rice leaves); beggar; (arch.) Manchurian wild rice (Zizania latifolia)

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relief; reassurance; recognition of right to land ownership (by the shogunate, a feudal lord, etc.); (arch.) living safely surrounded by walls

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one difficulty; one danger

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violation; offense; offence; breach; transgression; infringement

1

curt; blunt; brusque

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double; twice (as much); times (as much); -fold; 1-nth; 1 to n

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to be disheartened; to be dejected; to be discouraged; suddenly (losing a lot of weight); looking emaciated; becoming very thin

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to place on (something); to take on board; to give a ride to

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to be sticky; to be adhesive; to persevere; to persist; to stick to

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