jpdb beta

to create; to bring forth; to invent; to think up and bring into being; to give birth to; to bear

1

labour pains; labor pains; birth pains; contractions

1

(a) little; (a) few; slight; only; just; merely

1

ruins; wreckage; wreck; broken remains; debris

1

lingering life; feeble existence; brink of ruin

2

to keep; to preserve; to hold; to last; to endure; to keep well (food)

1

Tokugawa shogunate (i.e. the Edo shogunate, 1603-1867)

2

collision; crash; running into; conflict; quarrel; clashing

1

center; centre; middle; -centered; -centred; -focused

2

the whole country

1

to shed blood

1

karuna (compassion)

1

cruel; merciless; pitiless; tragic; horrible; terrible

1

to represent; to signify; to reveal; to show; to express; to make widely known

2

terrific; fierce; terrible; tremendous; dreadful; awful

2

rain and wind; driving rain

1

violent; furious; extreme; intense; fervent; vehement

1

to scatter; to sprinkle; to distribute (handbills, etc.); to spread (rumours, etc.); to give the slip; to throw off

4

to approach; to draw near

2

to roll up; to enfold; to swallow up; to involve; to drag into

1

passion; sexual desire; lust; attachment (esp. to one's family or a member of the opposite sex)

1

strait with a roaring tidal ebb and flow; whirlpool; kamaboko with a spiral whirlpool-like pattern; cooking technique where ingredients are cut in a spiral pattern; Naruto (city in Tokushima); Naruto Strait; Naruto wakame

1

wounded; injured

1

one's way back; one's way home

1

this sort of

1

goes without saying; needless to say; obvious

5

besides; furthermore; on top of that; and yet; nevertheless; even so

1

only; sole; unique

1

self-protection

2

to disappear into; to be lost in; to do something under the cover of (confusion, etc.); to be almost indistinguishable; to be confusingly similar; to be diverted from (negative emotions, etc.)

5

serious; important; significant; grave; weighty

1

business; errand; nature of one's business

1

without; unless; have to do

1

every night

2

to walk about; to walk around; to walk to and fro; to pace around; to wander

3

night crow

1

every night; nightly

2

to be away from home; to be out of the house

1

dawn; daybreak; event (e.g. "in the event of ..."); occasion; occurrence

1

stealthily; secretly; in secret

2

back door

4

usual state of things

2

to wake up; to sober up; to come to one's senses; to become enlightened

1

bed; berth; crib; cot; kip; bedroom

1

to cast a sharp glance

1

never; not at all

2

to speak to; to give a (something) talk to; to speak words of (something)

1

futon; Japanese bedding consisting of a mattress and a duvet; round cushion used for Zen meditation (traditionally made of woven bulrush leaves)

11

index finger; forefinger; second toe

2

middle finger; long finger; second finger; middle toe; third toe

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