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paving (a road); surfacing (with asphalt, concrete, etc.); pavement

2

small; fine; minute; minor; trivial; sensitive

2

to crack; to develop a crack

1

that; the; part (as in "part two"); um ...; er ...

277

crevice; crack; spare moment; interval; chink (in one's armor, armour); unpreparedness

7

to grow; to spring up; to sprout; to cut (teeth)

2

weed

5

each house; every house; many houses

7

space (between); gap; period of time (during, while); duration; between (two parties or things); among (a group); relations (between)

17

to blow through; to blow across

2

early summer; fourth month of the lunar calendar

2

wind; breeze; manner; behaviour; cold; influenza

6

to shake; to sway; to waver

3

Saitama prefecture (Kanto area)

15

bear (any mammal of family Ursidae)

101

valley

107

city

69

this; last (couple of years, etc.); these; you (as in "you liar")

193

Edo period (1603-1868)

3

Nakasendo (Edo-period Edo-Kyoto highway)

1

inn town; post town; post-station town

1

as (i.e. in the role of); for (i.e. from the viewpoint of); apart from... (used to change the topic); even (e.g. "not even a single person"); thinking that...; trying to...

46

to prosper; to flourish

1

inner-city area; city center

1

Gunma prefecture (Kanto area)

8

Niigata prefecture (Hokuriku area)

2

to tie; to bind; to bear (fruit); to close (e.g. deal); to confirm; to connect (two distant places); to close tightly

5

one grade; first-class; primary

2

be; is

55

17; seventeen

10

number; edition; sobriquet; pen-name; size (of printing types, canvases, knitting needles, etc.); suffix attached to names of ships, trains, airplanes, etc.

20

and; and then; thus; and now; and finally

122

Jōetsu Shinkansen

3

Takasaki (city in Gunma)

3

line; stripe; line (e.g. telephone line); wire; ray (e.g. X-ray); beam; line (e.g. of a railroad)

7

Chichibu (city)

1

feather; plume; wing; shuttlecock (in badminton)

5

raw; uncooked; natural; as it is; unprotected (sex); live (i.e. not recorded); inexperienced

5

to stretch; to extend; to straighten out; to be flattened; to spread (of paint, cream, etc.); to stretch out (e.g. of a hand); to extend

2

Chichibutetsudou

1

railway station; train station; staging post on a highway (in pre-modern Japan); counter for railway stations and bus stations

20

to hold (in one's hand); to take; to possess; to have; to maintain; to keep; to last

83

population; common talk

2

20 years old; (arch.) twenty

4

10,000; ten thousand; myriad; everything; all; (arch.) various

3

to count; to enumerate

4

northern part; the north (of a region)

3

central city; major city (in a region)

1

(within) the (Tokyo) metropolitan area

2

one hour

2