jpdb beta

gloomy; melancholy; pessimistic

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blue (sky, ocean, etc.); fresh and green (of vegetation); verdant; greying (hair); aged

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dark even in the daytime

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bright and clear (weather, sky, etc.); perfectly (fine weather); nicely dry (laundry, air, etc.); crisply (fried, cooked, etc.); frankly; open-heartedly

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palanquin bearer; coolie; wandering robber

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frequently; repeatedly; eagerly; keenly; hard; terribly

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to wipe; to dry

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condition; state (of health); appearance

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to get worse; to deteriorate; to go from bad to worse; to spoil (of food); to go bad; to perish

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to be absent; to take a day off; to rest; to have a break; to go to bed; to (lie down to) sleep

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halfway up (down) a mountain; mountainside

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sedan chair bearer; palanquin bearer; sedan chair business

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gradually; little by little; soon; before long; here and there; scattered

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Meiō era (1492.7.19-1501.2.29)

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Kiso

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battle; fight; war; struggle; conflict

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monument at cemetery entrance

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to have (e.g. lunch); to take (e.g. vitamins)

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leakage; omission; oversight; I; me

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speckles; spotted pattern

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spots; speckles; mottles; speckled; spotted

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maple (tree) (Acer spp.)

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East-Asian lacquer; japan; Chinese lacquer tree (Toxicodendron vernicifluum, formerly Rhus verniciflua)

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in the trees

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dazzlement; bewilderment; daze

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cutting through cloth; sound of cutting through cloth; shrieking sound; woman's scream; cry of the lesser cuckoo (Cuculus poliocephalus)

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sunlight filtering through trees

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(with) a flash of a drawn sword; brandishing a sword

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to draw swords and face off

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upper eyelid

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brick (used in Chinese-style buildings)

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vast; boundless; vague; obscure

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aim; object; expectations; prospects; something that can be relied upon; snack served with alcoholic drink; pad

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(fighting) spirit; motivation; shout (for getting in the right mood to deal with something, etc.); cheer; kiai; short shout when performing an attacking move

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to feel dizzy; to have blood rush to one's head; to lose one's cool; to be obsessed; to be infatuated; to become conceited

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to withdraw; to leave; to retire; to back down; to give up

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between life and death

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sourness; acidity

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(cannot) possibly; (not) by any means; (not) at all; utterly; absolutely

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quite; utterly; (not) at all; completely; wholly; entirely

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to close; to be over; to break up (e.g. school); to lose one's nerve; to feel daunted

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down-train; train heading toward the ending point of its route; down-slope; downward going; downbound (esp. away from Tokyo); downstream

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chirp; twitter; warble; whale tongue

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creation; founding; initiating

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invention; intelligent; clever; (arch.) making sense (of something); (arch.) understanding

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to look (stare) back at (somebody); to look at again; to re-examine; to prove oneself superior (to someone who had previously been condescending); to look back (behind oneself)

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road over a mountain pass

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a little while later; for a little while; some time later; for some time; presently

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anyhow; anyway; somehow or other; generally speaking; in any case; be that as it may

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calmly; quietly; gently; be quiet!

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