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stopping place for horse-drawn carriages and rickshaws (Edo period); high way resting place

wholesale rag dealer

floor broker (stock exchange); floor trader

hourglass-shaped object

sarugaku performance art using such an object

Independence Day celebration

arrangement of chapters; dividing into chapters

grand coalition; grand alliance

petitioner; complainant

bud; sprout

Architecture

height (of a building, etc.)

Word usually written using kana alone; Colloquial

height (of a person or thing)

to blow (wind)

separate arrangement (e.g. of payments); handling separately

別立て only; Food, cooking

beating (egg whites and yolks) separately

looks; features

prayer to a god

standing room

expression of one's views

leading female role actor (in kabuki)

Usu. preceded by a noun

putting a prefecture on the map (e.g. as a tourist destination); promotion of a prefecture

alternate succession (e.g. to throne)

忄 as in 忙

kanji "heart" radical at left (radical 61)

propping up asparagus stems during cultivation

Mathematics

cube root

Shinto ritual in which a shaman or priest soaks bamboo grass in boiling water and sprinkles the water on worshippers (originally a form of divination, later a purification ceremony, now primarily used to pray for good health)

age 30

leading actor

leading figure; leader