jpdb beta

whip; lash; scourge; stick; cane; rod

2

sumi; India ink; squid ink; octopus ink; carpenter's inking string

2

tattoo (esp. a traditional Japanese one); tattooing

1

to drive away; to clear; to scatter; to disperse

1

life imprisonment

2

group comprising the lowest rank of Japan's Edo-period caste system (often ex-convicts or vagrants); non-human

2

pain; agony; bitterness

2

arbitrariness; despotism; high-handedness; tyranny

1

bottom layer; undermost layer; lowest (societal) class; bottom (economic) stratum; lowest caste

1

contemplation; meditation

1

to indulge in; to give oneself up to; to be obsessed by; to be engrossed in; to be lost in; to be absorbed in

1

business; thing to be done; something that should be performed; information that should be conveyed

1

bank (river, lake); (arch.) pile; (arch.) heap

1

quantity; amount; volume; number; amount of money

1

dog (Canis (lupus) familiaris); squealer; rat; loser; asshole; counterfeit

3

lord of a castle

1

cousin (elder male)

2

cousin (male)

2

Eikichi

13

prefectures (of Japan, excl. Tokyo and Hokkaido)

1

enforcement; implementation; putting into practice; carrying out; operation; working (e.g. working parameters)

1

post road

2

stamp; seal

12

revision; amendment; alteration

3

Kyoto Prefecture

1

delivery of packages; postal service

12

oak; daimyo oak; Japanese emperor oak; Quercus dentata

1

small peninsula; cape; promontory; headland

1

deed (esp. negative); act; action; one's doing

1

civil administration; civil government; politics focused on the promotion of public welfare

4

seal; stamp; judgment; judgement; size (of paper or books)

1

model; pattern; paragon; exemplar

1

replenishment; supplementation; supplement; replacement; refilling

1

volunteer soldier

1

senior priest (of a Shinto shrine, below chief priest and deputy chief priest); grasshopper; locust

18

Welsh onion (Allium fistulosum); green onion; spring onion

5

1000 ri; (a) long distance

16

summer festival

2

sliding door

1

ancestral; hereditary; imported; transmitted; handed down

1

roll (e.g. of cloth); winding (e.g. watch); volume (of book); speeding up; heel (of a Japanese sandal)

1

front (in battle)

7

branch shrine; corporate spin-off; split-off business

2

brand (burnt-in mark of identification); branding iron

1

cause; origin

1

wooden tag

1

opposite side; other side; other party

1

to wake up; to rouse out of bed; to knock on the door and wake someone

2

low-lying part of a city (usu. containing shops, factories, etc.); Shitamachi (low-lying area of eastern Tokyo near Tokyo Bay, incl. Asakusa, Shitaya, Kanda, Fukugawa, Honjo, Nihonbashi, Kyobashi and surrounds)

2

sitting cross-legged (i.e. Indian style)

1