jpdb beta

modest; reserved

1

tradition; convention

1

tearoom; tea house; tea-ceremony room; tea arbour; tea arbor

1

zabuton (flat floor cushion used when sitting or kneeling; usu. rectangular)

1

sitting upright (properly)

1

well; now; then

2

reality; actuality; hard fact

1

reasons; circumstances; significance; hindrance; obstruction; interference

2

accidental resemblance

1

frame (e.g. picture frame, decorative door frame, etc.)

1

to catch; to capture; to grasp (e.g. meaning); to perceive; to captivate; to move (one's heart)

1

silhouette

2

to slip out; to sneak away; to break into the lead; to get ahead; to begin to fall out (e.g. hair); to break out (of a loop)

1

simple; easy

1

love; attachment; lovesickness

3

readiness; preparedness; resolution; resignation

1

I; me; personal (affairs, etc.); private; selfishness; partiality

6

to be renewed; to change; to be improved; to be reformed; to stand on ceremony; to be formal

1

unnatural; artificial; false; forced (e.g. smile); empty (e.g. compliments)

1

well-bred; of good upbringing

2

ruin; depravity; corruption

1

grief; lamentation

1

prejudice; bias; distorted view

2

to combine; to join; to tie on; to attach with a knot; to bind (e.g. an address)

2

personal; individual; private

1

obscene; indecent; lewd; bawdy; loose; improper

1

social life; social intercourse

1

veil

1

show (of power, ability, etc.); exhibition; demonstration; display; manifestation

2

open; public; official; overt

1

to be related; to be connected; to be joined together; to result in; to lead to; to bring about

3

to be sad; to mourn for; to regret

1

increasingly; more and more; decreasingly (when declining); less and less

1

to sink; to go under; to go down (e.g. sun); to set; to feel depressed; to become subdued

2

to be

2

both; (not) either

1

to ask; to inquire; to implore (a god for an oracle); to seek direction (from your superior); to visit; to speak to (a large crowd at a theatre, etc.)

1

to come into contact with; to touch (each other); to have a brush with

2

compared to

1

left utterly helpless (e.g. by a curt reply or refusal); have no one to turn to; unapproachable

1

common saying; popular version; folklore; tradition

1

clearness; clarity; skillfulness (skilfulness)

1

administrative; businesslike; practical; impersonal; perfunctory; robot-like

1

copy; duplicate; facsimile; transcript

2

film

2

to say; to tell; to state; to do

2

inheritance; something given or received

1

vigorously ...; suddenly ...

1

to cover (with something); to put on (e.g. on someone else's head); to plate something (with a metal); to pour or dash a liquid (on something); to charge (a person with a guilt)

1

tingling; stinging; pungently

1