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to achieve one's first victory after a string of losses

person who lives an extravagant lifestyle

discolouration of a mineral due to impurities (discoloration)

lingering snow

to break by hand (e.g. a flower)

to drift

vehicle (car, motorcycle, etc.) with an engine that runs

leader of a crime syndicate's henchmen

(another's) daughter

large-scale housing and lifestyle development project

courtesy car (e.g. at a hotel)

to scream

being raised in a town

flying fish roe

to spread money around (e.g. to give, to loan, to invest, etc.)

sentry box

to fall in love (for the first time)

to use one's influence

to throw

doll used as part of a street performance (Edo period)

indisputable

great plain

room for female servants

to keep company

being painfully true (e.g. reprimand)

Edo-era meat vendor (esp. of large game, e.g. deer, boar)

diligent worker

style of haikai or haiku from the Tenmei era (based on a return to the style of Basho)

poets can stay in one place and still know all the famous sights

seeing for the first time