jpdb beta

adding; connecting; joining; drawing a forced inference; forced analogy

1

mysterious; mystical

1

colour; color; hue; tints

1

to wear (a sword, decoration, etc.); to carry; to be entrusted with (a mission); to be charged with; to have (a quality, property, etc.); to have a trace of

2

ape man

1

to speak; to talk; to argue; to manage; to dispose of; to carry through

1

to give; to do ...

4

argument; discussion; dispute; controversy

1

to understand; to comprehend; to become clear; to be known; I know!; I think so too!

8

probable; likely

2

settlement; solution; resolution

2

adventurer

1

someone; somebody

1

extermination; elimination; renouncing worldly desires (in order to concentrate on Buddhist teachings); curing (an illness)

3

unevenness (of colour, paint, etc.); irregularity; unevenness (of quality, results, behaviour, etc.); inconsistency; fickleness; capriciousness

1

-ist; -er

1

scholar; academic; scientist; learned person; person of learning

2

hundred; 100

4

dawn; daybreak; Tenmei era (1781.4.2-1789.1.25)

1

(period of) a year; during the era (of)

1

Hyūga (former province located in present-day Miyazaki Prefecture); Hyūga (city)

1

hunter

2

to stick; to paste; to stretch; to spread; to form (e.g. ice on a pond); to fill; to swell

3

rabbit; hare; coney; cony; lagomorph (esp. leporids)

1

bow (weapon); archery; bow (for a violin, etc.)

1

mountain god; one's wife (esp. a nagging wife); roughskin sculpin (Trachidermus fasciatus)

1

to rot; to go bad; to corrode; to weather; to become useless; to blunt; to become depraved

1

change to ...; becoming ...; making into ...; -ization; -ification

3

tachibana orange (Citrus tachibana)

1

Nankei

1

westward trip; trip to the West

2

account; history; notice; note; Kojiki (earliest historical record of Japan, compiled in 712 CE); Records of Ancient Matters

2

to let spoil; to leave to rot; to cause to rot; to discourage; to dishearten

1

various countries; various regions; various provinces

2

night chat; tale told at night; evening tea party (starting around 6pm); book of informal essays

1

well-informed person; thinking person; intelligent person

2

(some) more; even more; longer; further

1

United Kingdom; Britain; Great Britain

2

to seize; to capture; to arrest; to hold down; to subdue

4

Common Era; CE; Christian Era; Western (Gregorian) calendar

1

thousand; 1,000

1

700; seven hundred

1

speaker; lecturer; lecturer (at a university or college); instructor; part-time teacher; tutor (at a cram school)

10

Simeon

1

pigeon

4

residence; estate; grounds; premises; mansion

1

(domestic) fowl; poultry

1

hut; house; boarding house; residence hall; (arch.) one day's march (approx. 12.2 km)

1

thief; robber; burglar; rebel; insurgent; traitor

12

to hide; to conceal

4