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to rustle

kindness begets kindness

large front gate

scholar of (ancient) Japanese literature and culture

rough fence of bamboo, logs, etc. constructed at battle sites or execution grounds

to have a flag set (indicates the setting of a variable that determines, for example, how a game will end)

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highest ranking prostitute in Edo's Yoshiwara red-light district (from the Hōreki era onward)

Perciformes (order of perch and perch-like fish)

twentieth day of the first month (end of New Year celebrations, upon which remaining New Year's food is eaten, decorations are stowed away, etc.)

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to place both hands on the ground (to express respect, apology or to present a request)

to understand everything from only one part

scroll containing a single line of calligraphy, often of Zen content (usu. found in a tea-ceremony room or house)

traditional Japanese poem with verses of five and seven morae repeated at least three times, usu. ending with a verse of seven

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not knowing what to do with the time one has on one's hand

to take a big bite

you will appreciate your parents' advice as you grow older, just as it takes time to feel the effects of unwarmed sake

15th day of the New Year (when women would belatedly do their New Year's greetings or go back to their parents' homes; in Kyoto and Osaka)

manpower supplied by designated adult men to government officials, or tax in lieu (ritsuryō system)

refusing to budge

the four great civilizations of the world (China, Babylon, India and Egypt; as put forward by Chinese scholar Liang Qichao in 1900)

three shrines (usu. in ref. to Ise Grand Shrine, Iwashimizu Hachimangū and Kamo Shrine, or Kasuga Grand Shrine)

I shouldn't say this, but

Magen David Adom (Israel's emergency medical service)

no matter what anyone says

abruptly hanging up the phone while the other person is still talking

handsome men have neither money nor power

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