jpdb beta

professor; teaching; instruction

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a certain ...

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step; stair; grade; rank; counter for breaks in written language (or speech, etc.); dan

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(flight of) stone steps; stone stairway

4

house located on a street corner; corner house

1

circle; "correct"; "good"; *; _; period

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fine brush or pencil; small or fine handwriting

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to turn towards; to point

3

household tools (e.g. brooms, dustpans); household utensils; sundries

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plain wood; unfinished woodwork

2

common camellia (Camellia japonica)

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Japanese apricot (Prunus mume); Japanese plum; ume; lowest (of a three-tier ranking system)

2

master; teacher; stable master

7

back door; back entrance

4

tree; shrub; bush; wood; timber

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although; but; even though; I wish that

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stalk; stem

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heavily laden (of a branch); sagging; drooping; bent low

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to bloom; to flower; to blossom; to open

7

scene; view; prospect; outlook

1

disorder; disturbance; unrest

2

pretty; lovely; clean; clear; completely; entirely

7

to sweep; to brush; to clean; to gather silkworms

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by the way; incidentally; sometimes; occasionally; precisely (at that time); exactly

3

rain shower in late autumn (fall) or early winter; seasonable rain

3

frost; white hair; grey hair; gray hair

4

to clear up; to clear away; to refresh (e.g. spirits); to be cleared (e.g. of a suspicion); to be dispelled; to be banished

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winter

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morning rainbow

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to borrow; to have a loan; to rent; to hire

2

since; this person

3

madness; insanity; irregularity; deviation; fanaticism; fanatic

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to be piled up; to lie on top of one another; to come one after another; to happen over and over; to overlap (each other); to occur at the same time

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yellow and white; gold and silver; bribery; corruption

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ring; circle; hoop; wheel; circle (e.g. of friends)

2

flutter; linger

4

chrysanthemum (Chrysanthemum morifolium)

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thin clouds

1

in comparison to; rather than

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lodging; inn; house; home; home of a servant's parents (or guarantor, etc.)

3

first; new

2

departure; departing (from ...); sending; sent (by ...); engine; counter for gunshots, bursts of gas, etc.

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small chrysanthemum; small, low-grade piece of Japanese paper (used as a kettle rest, tissue, etc.); (arch.) piece of paper given as a tip in a red-light district (that can later be exchanged for money)

3

butterfly

3

wing; Chinese "Wings" constellation (one of the 28 mansions); (arch.) counter for birds or bird wings

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(arch.) kariginu (informal clothes worn by the nobility from the Heian period onwards); (during the Edo period) patterned kariginu

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latticework

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desk

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beyond; across; the other side; the distance

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bamboo (any grass of subfamily Bambusoideae); middle (of a three-tier ranking system)

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