jpdb beta

bureau; office building

1

dazzlement; bewilderment; daze

1

fascination; bewitchment; entrancement; dazzlement

1

area; domain; territory; field; range; region

1

to spread; to propagate; to popularize; to broaden; to extend; to widen

1

preeminence; excellence; superiority; transcendence

1

competition; contest; rivalry; competition (between organisms or species)

1

common reed (Phragmites australis)

1

ferry landing; point of departure or arrival for ferries

1

hindrance; obstacle; to visit (someone's home); demon who hinders Buddhist training; demon who obstructs sentient beings from maintaining moral behaviour

1

senryū; comic haiku; humorous seventeen-mora poem

4

enmity; antagonism; hostility

2

jealousy; to be jealous

1

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

1

imitation; fake; phony; pseudo-

2

lampoon; satirical poem

3

anyhow; at any rate; anyway; somehow or other; generally speaking; in any case

1

system; lineage; corollary; system (range of strata that correspond to a particular time period); (taxonomical) series

1

mansion; residence

2

earthquake disaster; Great Kanto Earthquake (1923)

1

warehouse; storehouse; cellar; magazine; granary; godown

2

to surpass; to outstrip; to excel

1

friend

1

copy; sketch

3

bad smell; stink

1

bad smell; affectation; fulsomeness

1

you; buddy; monarch; ruler; he; she

1

inferiority

2

making different (comic) faces, esp. using small props

2

lifelike; exact resemblance

1

reputation; public opinion

1

best regards; please take care of; please do

3

critical eye

1

happiness; well-being; joy; welfare; blessedness

1

and (also); both ... and; as well as

2

title; caption; heading

1

new arrivals; new acquisitions

1

Gaston; Guston

1

Utagawa Kuniyoshi

1

pupil in ... year; student in ... year

1

to excel; to surpass; to exceed; to outweigh; to preponderate

1

genre; category; kind

1

stable; barn

1

riverbank; riverside

1

sudden shower; sudden downpour

1

opposite shore

1

standing facing each other (e.g. mountains, buildings); standing opposite each other; confrontation; squaring off against (adversaries, armies, forces); standing off against

1

extermination (e.g. of pests, demons, bandits); elimination; making someone renounce worldly desires in order to concentrate on Buddha's teachings; curing illness

1

heavy rain

1

to become misty; to become hazy; to get blurry; to grow dim; to be overshadowed; to be upstaged

1