jpdb beta

rise; increase; income; takings; completion; end; end result (e.g. of crafts)

1

such ... as; or some such

4

house; home; one's house; one's home; one's husband

2

samadhi (state of intense concentration achieved through meditation); being immersed in; being absorbed in; prone to; apt to

3

life; existence; (one's) working life; career; life force; lifeblood

8

indispensable; essential; requisite; required; compulsory; necessary

1

demand; firm request; requisition; requirement; desire

5

ascent; climbing; up-train; train heading toward the starting point of its route; upbound (esp. toward Tokyo); upstream

4

to irritate; to grate on one's nerves; to aggravate; to be galling; to be invidious

1

to get a big surprise; to be astonished

1

desperately; recklessly; rush headlong

4

eleven; 11; jack (playing card); Hodgson's hawk-cuckoo (Cuculus fugax); Horsfield's hawk cuckoo

1

to darken; to wane

2

clear; serene

9

Shigetarou

51

improvisation; improvised; impromptu; extempore

2

Ōmi (former province located in present-day Shiga Prefecture)

4

as always; as ever; though it's always the case

1

speaking without thinking; words spoken without much thought

2

once; one time; temporarily; for a moment; one degree; one tone

10

organ (of body, plant, etc.)

1

brain

1

rumination; regurgitation; chewing the cud; turning over in one's mind; thinking over something; pondering

2

half the number; haploid

2

so to speak; so to call it; as it were

1

unexpected; surprising

3

digestion (of food); digestion (of information); assimilation; consumption; absorption; (arch.) losing one's form and turning into something else

1

creative; original

1

slim; slender; lithe; smoothly; without resistance; without trouble

2

recitation; reciting from memory

3

reef; sunken rock; unforeseen difficulty

3

nonsense; irresponsible remark; codswallop; random; haphazard; unsystematic

9

bamboo grass; generally smaller species of running bamboo that do not shed their sheaths (e.g. Sasa spp.)

2

Ōtsu (city in Shiga)

1

shrine; palace; imperial residence; Imperial prince; Imperial princess; headboard with built-in shelves, drawers, etc.

5

sky; heaven; God; svarga (heaven-like realm visited as a stage of death and rebirth); deva (divine being of Buddhism); top (of a book); sole (of a Japanese sandal)

16

rain; rainy day; rainy weather; the November suit (in hanafuda)

4

imperial palace; shrine; Grand Empress Dowager; Empress Dowager; woman of imperial lineage who has borne a child; elderly woman of imperial lineage

1

current master; father of one's current master; minister (of government); noble; (arch.) nobleman's residence

1

to split; to tear; to burst; to be separated; to be divided

4

to break into song; to burst into song; to begin singing

1

creation; production; creative work (novel, film, etc.); fabrication; fiction; invention

1

home town; birthplace; native place; (arch.) ruins; (arch.) historic remains

2

ruin; destruction; devastation; waste; decay

1

intrepidity; indomitableness

3

sentiment; sentimentality

2

everlasting; unchangeable; immortal

1

tide; current; sea water; opportunity; chance; thin soup of fish or shellfish boiled in seawater

11

to wash; to cleanse; to inquire into; to investigate; to purify (one's heart); to lave (e.g. shore)

5

to set (sun); to become dark

1