jpdb beta

wearing a sword; sword one is wearing

2

hesitation; indecision; vacillation

2

(street) corner; turn (in the road); bend; turning point; watershed

1

square sleeves

2

medicine box

1

Toyama (city, prefecture)

1

police headquarters; main office; this office

1

spring; fountain

1

urgent report; urgent message

2

in the village; within the village

1

event; affair; incident; case; plot; trouble

1

government treasurer

1

(one's) wife; wife (of a peer or subordinate)

2

reason; significance; cause; piece of information that one has heard; I hear that ...; it is said that ...

2

Tokyo

2

direction; district; area; field (e.g. of study); sphere; quarter

1

central government office; head office; this office

1

plait; braid

1

missing (of a person); lost; unaccounted for; whereabouts unknown

1

possibly; maybe; perhaps

1

to crowd (a house); to throng to (a door)

1

be; is

2

official post; regular post; principal post (as opposed to secondary post); I (of someone in government or the civil service)

2

recklessness; daredevilry; daredevil; reckless person

1

aid; assistance; help; cheering; rooting (for); support

1

vague; obscure; vast; boundless

2

to be of no importance

1

three times

1

dressing in kimono without hakama (for a man); dressing casually

5

splash pattern (e.g. on a kimono); dye pattern; kasuri

1

unlined kimono; one kimono; a single kimono

1

stand-up collar

1

Western-style clothes (cf. traditional Japanese clothes)

7

calm; peace; serenity; composure; equanimity; presence of mind

1

to dress (oneself in); to attire oneself in; to adorn; to pretend; to feign; to affect

1

clear; obvious; evident; bright; light

1

swordstick; sword cane; loaded cane

2

(walking) stick; cane; wand

2

wakizashi; short sword worn by samurai

1

to crush to death; to press to death; to squeeze to death; to suppress (a laugh, one's anger, etc.); to stifle; to subdue (one's voice)

1

low voice; whisper

1

between (e.g. two people); face to face; hindrance; impediment; arrhythmic section of recitative; playing with only 2 players; prefix used for stress or emphasis

1

to call out to; to hail; to address; to appeal (e.g. to the public); to urge; to exhort

1

(lower) jaw; chin; mentum; chatterbox

1

fear; dread; fright; terror; trepidation; panic

1

to stand up; to get up; to recover; to regain one's energy; to (stand up and) take action; to rise up (against); to rise (from a crouch) and make the initial charge

7

arrival; arriving at ...; counter for items or suits of clothing; nth place (in a race); counter for moves

7

I; me; myself; (arch.) we; (arch.) us; (arch.) ourselves

1

only; sole; unique

1

government dominated by the former domain cliques (Meiji-Taishō era); han-clique government; domain-clique government

1