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ago; since; before; previous

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fry (young fish)

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workmanship; craftsmanship; grades; results; quality (e.g. of a crop); dealings

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old age; age; old people; (arch.) I; (arch.) me; (arch.) my humble self

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olden days; former

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male coming-of-age-ceremony; shaving one's eyebrows, blackening one's teeth, and wearing one's hair in the marumage style (of a newly married woman; Edo period)

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talisman; lucky charm

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to consider as; to regard (as equivalent); to deem (as); to equate

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celebration; auspicious occasion

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white sesame seeds

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black sesame (seeds)

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to burn; to scorch; to singe; to char

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black; black go stone; guilt; guilty person

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sesame seeds; sesame (Sesamum indicum)

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black and white; monochrome; good and evil; right and wrong; guilt and innocence

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Buddhism

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to come along; to come around; to turn up; to arrive at the present; to get where one is; to have been doing something (for a period of time)

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birth and growth; giving birth and raising; development; breeding

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in the first place; to begin with; after all; anyway; beginning; start

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pigment; coloring; colouring; colorant; colourant

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maturity; ripeness

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as; because; with; due to

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phenol

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compound

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degree of familiarity; popularity

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to raise; to elevate; to do up (one's hair); to fly (a kite, etc.); to launch (fireworks, etc.); to land (a boat); to show someone (into a room)

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golden sesame (seeds)

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flavonoid

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golden; gold-colored; gold-coloured; honey-colour

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deep; profound; dense; thick; close (relationship); intense; strong

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Arabian Nights; One Thousand and One Nights

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spell; charm; incantation; magic word

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open sesame!

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hermitage; retreat

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order; sequence; procedure

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technique; method

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cut; slice (meat, fish); fillet

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dish broiled in a mix of soy sauce, mirin, etc.; broiling with soy sauce, mirin, etc.

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brush

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to pile up; to heap up; to stack up; to repeat many times over; to go through repeatedly; to accumulate

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to soak into; to permeate; to penetrate

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spit; skewer; proxy (computer server)

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to pierce; to stab; to sting; to bite; to sew; to stitch; to pole (a boat)

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to entangle; to entwine; to pick a quarrel; to find fault; to be involved with; to be influenced by

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master of the tea ceremony; person with eccentric tastes

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to soak (in); to steep; to dip; to pickle; to preserve (in salt, vinegar, etc.)

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to choose; to select

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thickly; heavily; richly; severely; strongly

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fish having white flesh (e.g. tai, hirame, karei)

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icefish (Salangidae spp., esp. the Japanese icefish, Salangichthys microdon); noodlefish; whitebait

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