jpdb beta

very; extremely; absurd; ridiculous; excessive; extreme

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last (i.e. immediately preceding); previous; pre- (e.g. premodern); before; before; earlier

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people

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ancestor

2

slightest notice; slightest consideration; slightest attention; a little thought; glance

1

value; worth; merit

1

to spread (of a rumour, news, etc.); to travel; to be handed down (from generation to generation); to be passed down; to be introduced (to a country, region, etc.); to be brought; to be conveyed (of a feeling, impression, etc.)

4

legend; folklore; tradition

1

to happen to hear; to overhear

1

Imjin War (1592-1597)

1

to plunder; to capture; to seize; to snatch away; to steal; to grab away

1

remaining bony parts (of a fish after filleting); flaw (esp. of a person); fault; rice chaff; rough; crude

1

Buddha; Buddhism

1

various; many; several

1

commander; general; leader

1

letter; note; epistle; correspondence

1

taikō (esp. Toyotomi Hideyoshi); title for a regent, later for the grand chancellor, also for the father of an Imperial adviser (advisor) who passed the role to his son

1

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

1

childhood; infancy

2

constitution (physical); physical make-up; predisposition (to disease); character (of a group, organization, etc.); innate characteristics; make-up

3

to resemble; to look like; to be like; to be alike; to be similar; to take after

1

to be called ...; to be referred to as ...

2

mother's side of family; maternal (grandfather, uncle, etc.)

1

grandfather; old man; kyogen mask used for the role of an old man

2

public debt; public bond; government securities

1

embezzlement; misappropriation; usurpation

1

to be angry; to resent; to be enraged; to be indignant

4

to pierce; to stab; to sting; to bite; to sew; to stitch; to pole (a boat)

3

disembowelment; harakiri

1

to come down in the world; to fall low; to be ruined; to be reduced to poverty; to fall on hard times

1

one's second wife

1

three sons; third son

1

(moral) decay; (social) decline; decadence; decline (in prosperity)

1

to grow; to develop; to grow up

2

idea; notion; sense (e.g. of duty); resignation (to one's fate); acceptance; observation and contemplation

2

art; the arts

1

gradually; day by day; every day; each day

1

to drag; to trail; to force (someone) along; to drag (along); to prolong; to drag out

1

future; (future) prospects; bringing (from abroad, another region, etc.); bringing about; giving rise to

2

to train; to discipline; to teach manners

1

language; dialect; word; phrase; speech; (manner of) speaking

2

numb; insensitive (e.g. to pain); apathetic; insensitive; indifferent

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recently

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rare

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to be (in contrast to something that is not the case)

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to get too familiar with; to become too familiar with

2

pain of sickness

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morphine

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effect; efficacy; validity; potency

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neck; head; dismissal (from a job); firing

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