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minor or untalented actor (relegated to roles such as the legs of a stage horse)

arrangement of stones in a garden

to tell again and again

catch in one's hands

to win and advance to the next round

telephone number at which person without a phone can be reached

to finish writing

memorial service held on the seventh day following a person's death

chemical equation

bite (of a fish on a hook)

both people are superb in skill (and thus it is hard to rank them)

leavings of a meal

shifting (the burden) onto

banishment from one's residence as a form of judicial punishment

wages based on job evaluation

between meals

of all (things, people, places, days, etc.)

daimyo not sworn to support Tokugawa before the battle of Sekigahara (1600)

company consisting of autonomous divisions

enjoying oneself on a river (e.g. boating, swimming, fishing)

multi-level crossing (of roads to avoid intersection)

Western learning (introduced to Japan in the late-Edo and early-Meiji periods)

having a child from a former relationship (when remarrying)

cannot do a thing

to persuade

to depend on someone for food and lodging

day that is unlucky except between the auspicious hours of 11am and 1pm (in the traditional calendar)

dance in which the performer quickly changes his clothes seven times

the whole assembly

bashfulness before strangers