jpdb beta

these days; nowadays; recently

1

affected; smug; pompous; conceited; snobby; pretentious

1

thinking back now

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slander; bad-mouthing; abuse; insult; speaking ill (of)

1

tender; kind; gentle; graceful; affectionate; amiable

1

to lay the blame on; to put the fault on

1

around there; near there; or thereabouts; or so; such a matter; such a thing

1

later on; subsequently; by and by; after a while

1

originator; founder

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posterity; future life; life to come

1

to be remembered; to go down in history

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to have no way of knowing; to be completely ignorant of

2

that well-known ...

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the five virtues; tripod; three or four-legged kettle stand; family crest in the shape of such an object

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humanity; human nature

2

often; again and again; frequently; repeatedly

2

inverse proportion

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to notice; to become aware; to be scrupulous; to be attentive; to recover consciousness; to come to oneself

1

full up; to have had enough of something (both good and bad nuance)

2

future; distant future

1

stuffing oneself with food; eating enough to go without food for some time

1

loach (any fish of family Cobitidae); weather loach (Misgurnus anguillicaudatus); pond loach

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saucepan; pot; stew; hot pot

2

Edo-style sushi (usu. nigirizushi)

1

distinction; difference; separate; different; exception; exclusion

4

fireworks

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to serve (in a bowl, on a plate, etc.); to dish out; to pile up; to heap up; to administer (medicine, poison); to dose out; to put into (e.g. information in a report, meaning in a statement)

3

to hear; to hear by chance; to hear by accident; to catch (the sound)

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suitable; proper; appropriate; perfunctory; half-minded; sloppy

2

various

6

(not) anything; (nothing) at all; (not) any

2

to collect (e.g. one's thoughts); to get in order

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letter; missive; note; mail

1

future (usually near); prospects

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expectation; anticipation; prediction; forecast; conjecture

3

to; for; from the standpoint of; as far as ... is concerned

5

illustrated storybook with yellow covers (Edo period)

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author; writer; novelist; artist

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Koikawa Harumachi (1744-1789)

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prediction; estimation

2

useless; futile; vain

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account; history; chronicle; Kojiki; Records of Ancient Matters

1

man of the future; Homo futurus

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drawing; picture; diagram; sight; scene

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as you see; as you can see

2

so (e.g. so much, so close, so many, so few)

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difficulty; hardship; trouble; infeasibility; inability (to carry out)

2

it is assuredly (that)...; can say with confidence that it is...

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or rather (say); or better (say); or perhaps I should say; or, how should I put it; I mean

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hair style; coiffure; hairdo

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