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soba noodles eaten at night on New Year's Eve

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to eat too much; to overeat

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awesome; awe-inspiring; august; discourteous (to a superior); lacking due respect

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condiment (e.g. grated or chopped topping such as daikon, wasabi, ginger, green onion, red pepper); spice

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osechi; food eaten during the New Year's Holidays

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garnish (e.g. vegetables with a meat dish); trimmings; fixings; relish

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(woman's) undersash; rolled omelette mixed with fish (paste) (omelet)

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singing matches

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enka; traditional-style Japanese popular ballad

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to wake (someone) up (by calling for them); to awaken; to call (to mind); to bring back (memories); to evoke

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to pick a fight

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one's nature; one's feelings; plain; unadorned; mere; poor

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young man; young woman; young people; youth; youngsters

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person

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fashion; trend; vogue; prevalence (of a disease); epidemic

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as soon as possible

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to change the subject (e.g. away from something awkward or inconvenient)

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to return; to come back; to turn over; to become extremely; to become completely

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calling repeatedly (e.g. someone's name); pronouncing successively (usu. repeating a syllable with voicing, as in "tsuzuku")

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house; plastic greenhouse; house music; go to your kennel (cage, bed, etc.)!

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hair; fur; wool; down; plumage

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to stand on end (hair, fur); to bristle; to ruffle (up)

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warm; mild; considerate; kind; warm (of a colour); mellow

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whirlpool; swirl; eddy; vortex; maelstrom

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no concern of mine; nothing to do with me

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after a meal

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idol group; boy band; girl group

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flabby

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temple bell rung 108 times on New Year's Eve

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seeing off; sending off; funeral; escapement

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temple; monk

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visitor (to a shrine or temple)

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visiting a shrine on New Year's Eve and staying there until (or returning on) New Year's Day

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here and there; in twos and threes; sporadically; now and then; from time to time; occasionally

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irritating; troublesome; gloomy (e.g. mood); depressing; heavy (weather); cloudy

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extremely; highly

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

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Inari (god of harvests, wealth, fertility, etc.); Inari shrine; inarizushi (sushi wrapped in fried tofu); scrotum; testicle sack

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first person to say something; first person to suggest something

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rest after a meal

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since; henceforth

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crisp (not moist or juicy); crunchy; crunching sound (of walking on snow, frost, sand, etc.); doing skillfully and efficiently; doing quickly; (arch.) sound of pouring liquid

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nightlife districts; drinking districts

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calmly; quietly; gently; be quiet!

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to hurry (up); to urge on; to press; to rush

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half step; half a step

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only recently; just of late

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living; being alive; freshness; liveliness; situation in which a group of stones cannot be captured because it contains two or more gaps (in go); stet

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to look out over; to survey (scene); to take an extensive view of

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leading; guiding; commanding

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