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Hinamatsuri (March 3); Girls' Festival; Dolls' Festival

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Doll's Festival (March 3); Peach Festival

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spring breeze

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clattering; rattling

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oil

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children

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to have a go; to try and do (something); to take a chance with something

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foaming; frothing; lathering

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marshmallow

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round; circular; spherical; mellow (flavour, voice, etc.); mild; smooth

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period of time (usu. a period of approx. two hours corresponding to one of the signs of the Chinese zodiac); carving; engraving; victory; strictness; cruelty

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coming and going; keeping in touch; visiting each other; street traffic; highway

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to kick flying (often a person in sport, martial arts, etc.)

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trying to think of a way (to); devising means (to); working out (how to do); contriving (to raise money); managing

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reluctantly; unwillingly

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to say something is all right; to give the all-clear (e.g. to do something)

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rather than (do ...)

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Japanese literature

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classification; categorization; sorting

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literature

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making (book, etc.) into film; making a screen version; adapting for the screen

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adopting (novel, etc.) for the theatre (theater)

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second part (of three); second volume; middle part; novelette; novella; short novel

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most important work (of a writer, artist, etc.); representative work; masterpiece

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major; large; the Major Leagues; Major League Baseball; major (key, scale, etc.); (oil) major

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excerpt; extract; annotation; shō (unit of volume, approx. 1.8 ml)

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Shunkin

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recommendation; advice; suggestion; encouragement

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class; heading; group; category

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Tanizaki Jun'ichirō (1886-1965)

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unexpected meeting; coincidence

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to regain one's footing; to get back on one's feet; to recover; (of the market) to improve

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to face the wrong way; to go in the wrong direction

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to be baked (food); to be printed (photos); to be fired (pottery)

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whole family; entire family; all over the house; throughout the house; retainer of a daimyo; feudal domain

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fresh made; freshly baked; freshly roasted

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grandfather; male senior-citizen

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subtitle; subheading

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science

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home economics; domestic science

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reading through (a book); finishing (a book)

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even

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tasteless; dry as dust; insipid; flat; dull

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lemon tea

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involuntary nocturnal tooth grinding; bruxism; grinding one's teeth out of anger or vexation

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willpower; energy; vitality

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to slide; to slip off; to get dislocated; to be out of alignment; to get dislodged; to deviate

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axis; shaft; center; centre; stalk; stem

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to get encouraged; to become heightened in spirits; to recover one's strength

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or; either ... or; maybe; perhaps; some ... and others ...; sometimes ... and at other times ...

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