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to sow seeds; to sow the seeds of ... (e.g. conflict)

2

manual labor; manual labour; toil; Labour Party

1

song of praise; eulogy; paean; hymn

1

sales message; sales copy

1

news agency

1

resident employee; local staff; representative of a local office; employee assigned to an office

1

Henmi Yuukichi

2

fantasy; illusion; vision; dream

3

poem; poetry; verse; Chinese poem

4

monster cat; cat with magical powers

1

to remake; to remold; to remould; to convert; to reconstruct; to adapt

1

to cry; to shed tears

1

recitation; reciting from memory

1

reading with appreciation; savouring (a book); enjoying

1

falsehood; untruth; lie

4

openly; publicly; in public; formally; officially; duly

1

trace; vestige; evidence

1

a route or passage

1

blurb

1

construction at top speed

1

natural; reasonable; understandable

1

squad leader; group leader; team leader

1

Yasuharu

1

cut; cutting; haircut; shuffle (cards); shuffling; scene

8

point; gist; essentials; knack; trick; the ropes

3

within Hokkaido

4

extra (e.g. in a film); supernumerary; extra; surplus; excess

1

composing haiku poems

1

athletic meet (esp. at school); sports day

1

way of taking (e.g. photographs); manner of taking; how to take

1

ocean liner

1

ship's captain; skipper; length of a ship; boatman

2

throughout; over a period of ...; over a span of ...

4

to work hard; to work diligently

2

reluctant; unwilling; involuntary; unintentional; unintended; unlooked-for

1

absurd; irrational; unreasonable; absurdity (philosophy)

1

false accusation; pretext; picking a quarrel; committing oneself

2

tragicomedy

2

taking a quantity (of time, people, etc.); similar to ...; dependent on ...; reliant on ...; while ...; when ...

2

once in a lifetime (opportunity); (a golden opportunity that may) happen only once in a thousand years

2

core; heart (of the matter); point; crux; kernel

4

plaintive; piteous; doleful

1

to swell; to become swollen; to become puffy (e.g. face from lack of sleep); to become bloated (esp. from fluid retention)

1

canvas; base

1

to negotiate (with someone about); to talk over (something with); to tackle someone (about); to throw on each other; to splash (water) on each other; to pour on each other

2

all night; throughout the night

1

cellar; cave; hole in the ground

4

ghost; apparition; goblin; monster; something unusually large

1

mole (Talpidae spp., esp. the small Japanese mole, Mogera imaizumii)

4

injury; harm; danger

2