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Mouth
Pictograph of a mouth.
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Day
Pictograph of the sun with a happy smile.
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Month
Pictograph of the moon w/ left eye and mouth of the "man in the moon."
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Rice Field
A bird's-eye view of a RICE FIELD with four plots.
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Eye
Pictograph of an EYE with two lids.
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Old
Pictograph of a gravestone.
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A "percieving subject" with five mouths (the senses).
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An eye looking directly at the sun.
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Companion
First COMPANION God made was Eve. When Adam saw her, he cried, "Flesh of my flesh!"
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Bright
The clear thinker's BRIGHTness of the sun, and the poet's BRIGHTness of the moon.
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Chant
One mouth not speaking is the choirmaster, and two mouths with wagging tongues are CHANTing.
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Sparkle
Like tiny suns SPARKLING on a diamond.
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Goods
Many hungry mouths await GOODS to consume.
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Spine
Pictograph of the vertebrae of a SPINE.
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Prosperous
A sky with two suns would be a PROSPEROUS sky indeed.
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Early
The sunflower with needle leaves is the EARLY flower of the day because the sun shines on its namesake first.
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Rising Sun
Japanese flag with a baseball for a RISING SUN, and a baseball bat for a flagpole.
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Generation
Thirty years (ten x 3) is one GENERATION.
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Stomach
The brain is supported by the flesh through the STOMACH.
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Nightbreak
Sun rising over the floor heralds NIGHTBREAK.
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Gall Bladder
The GALL BLADDER is the part of our body that is responsible for anger, which we shouldn't let the night break on.
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Span
The SPAN of our lives, marked by sunrises and sunsets.
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Olden Times
OLDEN TIMES (days) have to use a walking stick.
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Oneself
In Japan, pointing to the drop between our eyes indicates ONESELF.
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White
A drop of sun is WHITE light.
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Hundred
A person's ninety-ninth birthday is called their "White Year" in Japan. A HUNDRED minus one = white.
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A walking stick to pry a baby's mouth open in order to get food IN.
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Tongue
A language or TONGUE is shared by over one thousand mouths.
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Measuring Box
A MEASURING BOX used for drinking covered by one thousand needles -- a drinker's nightmare.
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Rise Up
The sun RISES UP from [the] Japan[ese measuring box.]
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Add a drop to nine, and you get the ROUNDed number ten.
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Measurement
A drop of ten -- one-tenth of a shaku (old unit of MEASUREMENT in Japan.)
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Specialty
Usually people don't want to stick with one SPECIALTY, so they take on different fields. Ten rice fields glued = lots of SPECIALTIES.
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Dr.
A person with a needle specialty, a doctor, such as an acupuncturist. The drop at the top is like the period in 'Dr.'.
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Fortune-Telling
A divining rod and a mouth doing the divining or FORTUNE-TELLING.
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A floor with a divining rod ABOVE it.
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A cieling with a divining rod BELOW it.
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An EMINENT person uses a sunflower as a magic wand.
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In the MORNING, mist is spilled from the curve of the moon.
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A freakish creature with ONLY a gaping mouth and tiny animal legs is the ONLY one of its kind.
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Shellfish
A SHELLFISH with a giant eyeball and little legs.
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Only a magic wand could make a shellfish stand UPRIGHT.
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An EMPLOYEE running around with their mouth clamped shut with a shellfish.
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Old Father Time is said to have a NEWBORN BABE crawling around his legs.
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In the BEGINNING, there were two creatures walking on human legs (Adam and Eve.)
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A shellfish book with only one PAGE, revealing a single drop of wisdom.
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In the beginning, two STUBBORN brothers (with hard heads) each stuck to their own way of life, and wanted God to bless them.
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Insignificant like a drop in the wind.
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The losing shellfish in a duel is bound up in seaweed.
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Ten Thousand
Groups of digits in big numbers (such as 10,000) are bound up with a comma.
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Phrase
A PHRASE is a group of words bound up in the mouth.
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When the wind touches a part of the body, the TEXTURE of the skin changes.
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Decameron
Ten days bound together make the DECAMERON (a period of ten days).
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Ladle
Drops of water are bound up in a LADLE.
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Bull's Eye
A picture of a dove painted on a ladle acts as a BULL'S EYE to shoot your arrow at.
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A trophy moose with a long NECK hung on the wall, with horns on which coats can be hung and a large nose that serves fountain drinks.
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Fish Guts
The hook used to pull out the FISH'S GUTS.
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In a RIOT, tongues become barbed like fish hooks.
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The fishhook has been STRAIGHTENED OUT so it can pass through the eye of the needle.
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Tool
Each TOOL on the carpenter's bench has an eye so it can watch what you are doing with it.
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The watchful eye of the needle becomes a tool with which you can measure what is TRUE and what is not.
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Craft
The pictrogram of the "I" beam used in construction work gives us the character for CRAFT.
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By one's side...craft.
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By one's side...mouth.
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Possess
In order to avoid POSSESSION by evil spirits, one wears a piece of raw flesh/meat by one's side.
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It is easy to BRIBE a person whom money (in it's ancient form: shells) has possessed.
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Tribute
The craft of getting money by calling it a TRIBUTE. An age old practice dating back to when money was shells.
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Paragraph
The craft of making headers.
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Sword
Resembles the handle of a SWORD.
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Blade
A drop of blood clinging to a dagger you used as a razor BLADE.
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A Japanese chef (an expert at CUTTING), druken at a party, dices his vegetables with a dagger.
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A dagger poised over an open mouth. (Think Freud.)
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SHINING one's shoes has this purpose -- for the sun to be seduced on to them.
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Rule
According to certain game RULES, you must dig for clams with a saber.
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To share your land with your VICE-wealth-holder, you divide it with a saber.
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The mouth of a bound up samurai bellowing in sorrow because he's SEPARATED from his saber.
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Village
At the edge fo the rice field stands a street sign, marking the edge of the VILLAGE.
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Can
The Little Engine That COULD spitting nails out of its mouth as it chews up the railway tracks.
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Place on the Head
At a hardware store, you ask a worker to "place a nail on your head" (which you would "humbly accept"). But what if he didn't get the idiom?
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