jpdb beta

bubble; foam; froth; head on beer

1

to divide; to cut; to halve; to break; to crack; to dilute; to fall below

1

humanity; human nature

4

outer layer (e.g. of skin); cuticle; epidermis; epithelium

1

goes without saying; needless to say; obvious

1

casually (come or go); aimlessly; abruptly; detached (from the world); aloof

1

feeling of oppression

1

end; verge; extremity; miss; failure; blank (e.g. lottery ticket)

1

corner; section; one horn; narwhal (Monodon monoceros)

1

ashtray

2

backlight (in photography, etc.); illumination (of the subject) from behind

1

silhouette

1

to float; to rise to the surface; to stand out; to be visible; to be alienated

1

to turn on the light

2

recognition; acknowledgement; acknowledgment; approval; consent; agreement

1

contradiction

2

hard to read; illegible

1

express; special delivery

1

Nationalist Government (of China; i.e. under the Kuomintang); provincial office (under the ritsuryo system); provincial capital

1

kamaboko; steamed seasoned fish paste, usu. in a semicylindrical shape on a strip of wood and sliced to go in soup, etc.

4

gidayū (type of reciting used in the puppet theater)

1

bass range (in Japanese music); six even-numbered notes of the ancient chromatic scale; Japanese seven-tone gagaku scale similar to Mixolydian mode (corresp. to: re, mi, fa, so, la, ti, do)

1

plan; idea; design; plot

1

flat-tasting; bland; lacking in flavor; dull; flat; unimaginative

1

daimyo (Japanese feudal lord)

1

medley (of food, songs, etc.); (snow or sand) drift

1

one way or the other; either way

1

during absence from home

1

to blow through; to blow across

1

small tatami room; extension of the main room of a home (in traditional palatial-style architecture); room smaller than four and a half tatami (in tea ceremony)

3

3 Japanese feet; waistband; belt; cloth girdle

2

dresser

4

single; solo; solitary; just one; only one

1

hearth; fireplace; furnace; kiln

1

steaminess; sultriness; stuffiness

3

to swell; to expand; to inflate; to bulge

1

chignon (in a Japanese hair-style)

1

postcard; memo; note; card

1

tic; spasm; twitch

2

to paint; to plaster; to lacquer; to varnish; to spread; to smear

1

-esque; -like; -ish

1

tissue paper; toilet paper

1

looking good; sounding good; (of) good appearance

1

in a row; in a line

1

fire for luring fish at night

1

fire for luring fish at night

1

absolutely normal; perfectly commonplace; taken for granted

1

receipt of goods

1

three or four days

1

sawmill; lumbermill

1