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counter for temples

1

word game; wordplay; playing with words

2

watch store; watch dealer

1

Ikkyuu

1

waste of time; killing time

1

settlement of accounts; closing accounts; financial results; reporting (of accounts)

1

being greatly in the red; taking a big loss; heavy deficit

1

citric acid

2

California

1

orange (fruit, colour)

1

calculation; self-interest; selfishness

1

age thirty; one's thirties

1

Mount Fuji; Mt. Fuji; Fujiyama; Fuji-san

1

flinchingly; falteringly; being overwhelmed; staggeringly; totteringly; unsteadily

1

taste (in fashion, music, etc.); sense (e.g. of humour); flair

1

to use as an intermediary; to mediate; to assist; to worry; to mind; to care

1

houseroom

1

(an) only child

2

home area; home town; local

4

lost child; lost person; stray child; missing child

1

nowhere

1

without cause; without reason

1

long time

2

standard; level; norm

2

for two people's eyes to meet; catching someone's eye; making eye contact; meeting a person's gaze

2

narrow eyes; fine texture

1

large text that appears in ads or brochures to catch the reader's attention (in copywriting)

2

original; novel; new

1

Japanese person; Japanese people

1

serving tea (esp. at a company); tea server; tea lady

1

to become attached (to); to take (to); to become affectionate (with); to be tamed

3

pleasant; charming

1

to incline one's head to the side (in doubt); to tilt one's head to the side (in confusion); to be puzzled

2

fragment; broken piece; chip; ounce (of truth, conscience, etc.); trace; shred

2

horror

1

ghost story

1

possibly; by some possibility; perhaps

1

simile; metaphor; allegory; parable

1

one's emotional state; one's mood; human interest; kindness; simple-heartedness

25

distrust of (other) human beings

1

ogre; demon; spirit of a deceased person; ogre-like person (i.e. fierce, relentless, merciless, etc.); it (in a game of tag, hide-and-seek, etc.); Chinese "ghost" constellation (one of the 28 mansions); very

2

namahage; folklore demon of the Oga Peninsula (people dress up as them on New Year's Eve to admonish children)

4

orthodox school

1

to rush on; to attack; to swoop down on

1

vocabulary; lexicon; lexis; terminology

10

to hold up in one's arms

1

moment; instant

1

near; close; beside; third person

1

bedtime

1

to pull apart; to separate; to have a lead over; to pull ahead of; to outdistance

2