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love; love-making; passion; emotion; affections

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adventure; venture; venture which is unlikely to succeed; risky attempt; danger

3

illness (usu. excluding minor ailments, e.g. common cold); disease; bad habit; bad behaviour; crazy; insane

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archaeology; archeology

1

art; fine arts

1

to concern; to be related

1

bookstore; bookshop; publisher; main building

1

opening a business; opening a practice

1

successive generations; successive emperors

1

pluralizing suffix (esp. for people and animals; formerly honorific)

1

to collect; to assemble; to gather

1

various

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variety; kind; type; counter for kinds, species, etc.

1

anyone; anybody; everyone; everybody; whoever

1

to put in; to let in; to admit; to accept; to accept; to comply; to include

3

liked; well-liked; in love (with); loved; faddism; eccentricity

2

at last; finally; barely; narrowly; just

2

interest (in something); curiosity (about something); zest (for)

2

head; hair (on one's head); mind; brains; leader; chief; top

5

(a) few; some; several

2

introduction; presentation; referral; listing

3

to read; to recite (e.g. a sutra); to chant; to predict; to guess; to decipher; to count

2

several tens

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year; counter for years (e.g. of an era), grades (e.g. school); period of an apprentice's contract (usu. ten years)

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also; too; not ... either; (it's not possible) no matter what; although one might wish otherwise

3

father (esp. used in samurai families prior to the Meiji period)

3

librarian

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label (i.e. sticker); label (i.e. record label)

5

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

1

what; how; what (a) ...!; how ...!; surprisingly; to my amazement

1

because ...; for ...; the reason being ...; as for ...; when it comes to ...; regarding ...

1

to receive; to get; to catch (e.g. a ball); to be struck by (wind, waves, sunlight, etc.); to sustain (damage); to incur (a loss); to undergo (e.g. surgery)

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habit (often a bad habit, i.e. vice); tendency; peculiarity; idiosyncrasy; crease; wrinkle

1

strong; potent; strong; brawny; good (at); skilled; being able to handle

3

green; emerald green; green color of new foliage; verdure

1

reddish brown

1

fate; destiny (esp. as a mysterious force that binds two people together); relationship (e.g. between two people); bond; family ties; affinity; opportunity

1

red; crimson; Red; communist; (arch.) beautiful

2

to wear glasses; to put on glasses

1

-years-old

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misanthropy; misanthrope

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to be (too) late getting married; to be (too) late going somewhere

1

old maid

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disrespect; irreverence; impiety; blasphemy; profanity

1

minimum limit; the lowest degree (possible, allowable, etc.)

1

reading (books)

2

reopening; resumption; restarting

1

door; gate; opening; title page

1

inner part; inside; interior; depths (e.g. of a forest); back (of a house, drawer, etc.); bottom (e.g. of one's heart)

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samurai on horseback; (medieval) knight

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