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one-horse (carriage)

final income tax return

passion

moment by moment

rising rapidly (e.g. prices, popularity)

Manji era (1658.7.23-1661.4.25)

Shanghai Incident (1932)

final sentence

origami

the grass

Genji era (1864.2.20-1865.4.7)

Genna era (1615.7.13-1624.2.30)

to go back

people from Kansai

bondage torture where the bound victim sits cross-legged with their arms tied behind them, with the rope tightened until their ankles touch their neck

Dynastic period (the Nara period and esp. the Heian period, characterized by the rule of the emperor as opposed to shogunate)

trick that may deceive a child

audience seating

to be thrown in jail

to let (someone) play

to look sour

failing to be elected

ancient Shinto (as practiced prior to the introduction of Confucianism and Buddhism to Japan)

the hardest thing of all

sequential art or pictures (type of printed, graphic storytelling, differentiated from manga by its liberal use of page space, often only one panel per page, and sparing use of dialogue)

windowpane

remaining years (of an old person's life)

great help

inner canthus

to be content