jpdb beta

widow

1

beautiful face; good looks; beauty

1

battle formation; camp; encampment; group; gang; war

1

to pull; to tug; to draw (attention, sympathy, etc.); to attract (e.g. interest); to draw back (e.g. one's hand); to draw in (one's chin, stomach, etc.); to draw (a card, mahjong tile, etc.)

1

to get on; to climb on

1

medical society

1

last (year); yesterday

4

evening; early night hours

4

emperor's meal

1

parting; farewell

2

take care of yourself; get well soon; God bless you; bless you

1

8th in rank; eighth sign of the Chinese calendar

1

Death comes to old and young alike; uncertainty of life

4

from the beginning

1

cannot help (doing, etc.); cannot resist; must not ...; should not ...; must ...; have to ...

1

ancestor; forefather; foremother

1

head; chief; leader; the greatest of all; the most excellent

2

manure; fertilizer; fertiliser; compost

1

bucket; pail; tub

3

new rice field; newly developed rice field; wasteland or marshland newly reclaimed as a rice field (Edo period)

1

drawer; withdrawal (of money from an account); variety of knowledge and experience useful for handling things impromptu

1

ridge (in field); row of raised earth when planting crops; rib (cloth, mountains, sea); cord (e.g. corduroy)

1

Metal Monkey (57th year of the sexagenary cycle, e.g. 1920, 1980, 2040)

7

march; parade

1

to be erected; to be built

1

than; other than; except; but

1

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

1

every year; yearly; annually

2

beginning of the year; new year; New Year's call; New Year's greetings

1

in haste

1

even though it is not; despite not

1

passing each other

1

east

5

to drag out

1

living; life; judo art of resuscitation; action; activity

1

to repeat; to do something over again

1

to be late; to be delayed; to fall behind (in a race, one's studies, etc.); to lag behind; to be bereaved of; to be preceded by (someone) in death

2

short way; shortcut

2

Japanese red pine (Pinus densiflora); Japanese umbrella pine; tanyosho pine

1

five (long cylindrical things)

2

marsh; swamp; wetland; being hooked (on a video game, TV show, etc.)

3

to look out over; to survey (scene); to take an extensive view of

1

fields (of rice and other crops)

1

moving slowly (and dull-wittedly)

2

thicket; coppice; brushwood

2

to tuck up (e.g. skirt); to abridge; to cut short

1

back; rear; background; behind the scenes

1

wearing wooden clogs; floatplane

1

we

1

doesn't even exist

1