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waka; classic Japanese poem, esp. a tanka, often 31 morae

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Sakinodaisoujougyouson

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high priest

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(Ogura) Hyakunin Isshu; classical Japanese anthology of one hundred Japanese waka by one hundred poets; hyakunin isshu karuta; hyakunin isshu poetry cards

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reversal; return; return gift; return favour (favor); barb (on a fishing hook); mixture of soy sauce, sugar and mirin

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wonderful; astounding; marvellous

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to take back; to recapture

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height (of body); stature

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hopping; skipping; lightly and repeatedly jumping

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twice; again; second time

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posing a question; question

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to look towards

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to leave alone; to leave as is; to ignore; to neglect

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common; ordinary; conventional; customary

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entry (in a form, register, diary, etc.); filling in; filling out

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poem; poetry; verse; Chinese poem

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that kind of; that way; that move; that trick; that game

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memorization; memorisation; learning by heart

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younger people; future generations

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(all) together

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mountain cherry (Cerasus jamasakura)

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licking; dead drunk; blind drunk

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mercilessly; relentlessly; unsparingly

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thrusting technique

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in case of; at that time; at this time

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fluttering; flapping; (arch.) flickering (light, flame, etc.); frill; piece of thin material

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to loiter; to putter; to prowl; to wander about; to roam about; to knock around

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fall; drop; descent; coming down

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older sister; elder sister

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Hiroo

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incompetent; no-talent; worthless person; dimwit; incompetence

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death; decease; (arch.) death penalty (by strangulation or decapitation); (an) out

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corpse; kanji "corpse" radical

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answer; solution

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authority; expert; counter for messages, letters, notes, documents, etc.; understanding (esp. of male-female relations); tact; supernatural powers

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route; road; distance travelled in a day; one's ... (age, e.g. 40s, 60s)

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little girl; maiden; young lady; female usually between 7 and 18 years old

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wind-scattered dust; windblown sand; worldly affairs; cares of life

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fashion; way; school (of thought); class; rank; current (electrical, water, etc.)

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purgatory

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dancing; dance

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nonsensical; unreasonable; awfully; extremely; disorder; confusion

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naming; christening

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hot

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to spout out; to spurt out; to sprout; to bud; to burst into laughter; to blow (smoke, etc.)

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index; indices; indicator

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(the) whole face

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to cling to; to embrace

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first; firstly; first of all; Introduction; Preface

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to read out; to read aloud; to call out; to finish reading; to read through

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