jpdb beta

(living) from hand to mouth; living on the fringe of subsistence

1

originating; causing; beginning

1

sunny place; in the sun

8

national isolation; closing the country (to foreigners); sakoku; policy of national isolation enacted by the Tokugawa shogunate

1

relay station (esp. on Edo-period highway); post station; stage

2

door

1

point; tip; head (of a line); front; first; before; (the way) ahead

1

Edo-period business taxes

1

bakufu; shogunate

2

magistrate; shogunate administrator

4

lately; recently; nowadays

2

five-sided fortification

1

the present; present time; as of; present tense; this world; this life

2

important; momentous; essential; principal; major

3

lieutenant colonel; commander (navy)

4

supervision; superintendence; management; supervisor

1

often; again and again; over and over again; repeatedly; frequently

1

size; large and small (sizes); various sizes; daishō (matched pair of long and short swords); large and small drums; long months and short months; sic bo (Macao dice game)

3

gun; wooden pole that wrestlers strike in practice; puffer fish

1

building

6

itself; one's own body; oneself; originally; naturally

6

receive; intercept

1

edict; ordinance; proclamation

3

difference; distinction; discrepancy; mistake; error

2

inhabitant; resident; citizen; population

5

(not so) much; (not) very

1

circumstances; condition; to arrange; to manage; to lend money; to raise money

5

to make a sale of government property

1

catch of fish

1

one fifth part

1

cheap; inexpensive; pure; honest; upright

1

contractor

4

competition; contest; rivalry; competition (between organisms or species)

1

influential person; man of importance

1

respect; esteem; regard

2

fairness; impartiality; justice; objectivity

1

those confident in themselves

1

anyone; anybody; everyone; everybody; whoever

3

plan; design; layout

3

details; particulars; detailed; specific; close-up view (of a digitally displayed map); zoomed-in view

1

valid; proper; right; appropriate; reasonable

1

written estimate; quotation; quote

1

deliberation

1

consent or refusal; yes or no; decision to accept or decline; up or down (vote); assent or dissent; accept or reject

1

to decide; to determine

2

edition; version; plate; block; editions of a publication

1

competitor; rival

1

specification document

1

to turn over; to turn upside down; to knock over; to tip over; to overturn (e.g. a decision); to upset

1

estimate; estimation; valuation; quotation

1