jpdb beta

to dance; to perform a dance

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to dance (orig. a hopping dance)

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day and night

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minister of state

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waka; classic Japanese poem, esp. a tanka, often 31 morae

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study; scholarship; learning; discipline; branch of learning; (a) science

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to grant; to give; to confer; to teach; to instruct; to impart (knowledge)

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villages

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to blow into; to breathe into; to inspire; to indoctrinate; to record (music, video, etc.)

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suspicious; dubious; unreliable; indecent; unseemly

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to put on the market; to put out for sale; to put on sale; to become popular

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excessive profits; usury

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spell; charm; incantation; magic word

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talisman; amulet; charm

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dissemination; scattering; sprinkling; spraying

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ignorant people

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to bewilder; to perplex; to puzzle; to tempt; to seduce

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rumour; rumor; hearsay; report

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absence; disregard; indifference

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reason; cause; circumstances

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to add (numbers); to add (something); to top up (with something); to take care of (e.g. one's business)

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(bowing and) greeting; (arch.) declining; (arch.) refusing

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document; letter; writing; contents (e.g. of a letter)

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to hand over; to surrender

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to give one's name (as); to introduce oneself (as); to claim to be; to call oneself; to reveal oneself (as); to admit to being

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one's pocket

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high-quality Japanese paper

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letter; note

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(in the) presence (of); in front (of); before (someone)

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friend

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to read aloud to another

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torrentially; swiftly flowing (water, esp. river); (speak) eloquently; fluently; flood of the times (moving strongly in one direction); current of the times

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to read out; to read aloud; to call out; to finish reading; to read through

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difficult; hard; impossible; unfeasible; fussy; particular; gloomy

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literary style

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in short; in a word; to sum up; to put it simply; to make a long story short; after all

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to state; to express; to mention

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misunderstanding

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incomprehensible; nonsensical; puzzling; I don't get it; I'm confused; I'm lost

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for now; for the time being; for the present; though not quite satisfactorily; after a fashion

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kamidana; household shrine; home shrine

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early Japanese Christianity (from the later Muromachi period); early Japanese Christian

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to worry about; to be anxious about; to be concerned about; to lament; to grieve; to feel sorrow for

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advice; warning

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to sink (e.g. a ship); to submerge; to lower (e.g. one's body into a chair); to floor (an opponent)

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corner; nook

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straw

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materials; ingredients; material (for a novel, experiment, etc.); subject matter; grounds (for a decision, judgement, etc.); basis

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matsutake mushroom (Tricholoma matsutake)

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wet nurse; nursing mother

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