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• low door used in bathhouses to prevent the hot water from cooling (Edo period)

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• pompadour-like hair style, popular for unmarried women in the Edo period; shimada coiffure - abbreviation

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• part of the imperial palace where dancing girls were trained (Nara and Heian periods) - archaism

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• loyalty; devotion; fidelity; faithfulness
• inspector of the Imperial Prosecuting and Investigating Office (ritsuryo system) ➜ 判官【はんがん】・弾正台

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• residence for low class samurai enrolled in one of the police forces (Edo period) ➜ 与力・同心

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• dark sweet liquid produced after the third heating in a thermal sugar-refining process

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• whitecheek shark (Carcharhinus dussumieri, species of the Indo-West Pacific)

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• blackback butterflyfish (Chaetodon melannotus, species found in the Indo-Pacific)

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• Forgive me for dispensing with the preliminaries, but I hasten to inform you that... - opening formula of a brief letter

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• Acanthopanax sciadophylloides (species of flowering plant related to the aralias)

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• lock; tuft; tassel; feathers (i.e. fringe of hair on the legs); feathering; penicil

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• mushroom that springs up in the morning and withers by night; "something short-lived" [figurative] - archaism

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• starting the new school year from autumn (instead of spring); autumnal admission; fall matriculation

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• Pantherinae; subfamily of Felidae which contains the genera Panthera, Uncia and Neofelis

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• sake lees with black or brown specks (from oxidation enzymes produced by the yeast) ➜ 酒かす

noun / ~する noun:

• tiger's howling
• "being out and active in the world (of a hero, etc.)" [figurative]

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• economic downturn precipitated by the Lehman Brothers bankruptcy in 2008 - From English "Lehman Shock"

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• blessing of man; winning with a discard in the first turn - Mahjong term - From Chinese

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• blessing of earth; winning with a self-drawn tile in the first turn - Mahjong term - From Chinese

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• 17C male hairstyle (shaved forehead, chignon, sideburns thinned to the size of a thread)

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• PRISM; mass electronic surveillance program operated by the United States National Security Agency

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• group dating; gathering for young people to socialize with the opposite sex ➜ コンパ

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• cash gift from local government to the elderly (often on 77th and 88th birthdays)

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• snakeberry (Maianthemum dilatatum); two-leaved Solomon's seal; false lily of the valley

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• woven mat tied around a plant to prevent damage from the weight of snow