jpdb beta

in the rain

1

custom; habit; customary practice

1

traditional culture

1

to compare; to make a comparison (between); to compete (on); to measure (one's strength, ability, etc. against another's)

1

yew plum pine (Podocarpus macrophyllus)

1

wrong; groundless; different; separate; unexpected; surprising

3

one's body alone; having nothing except one's body; just oneself (with no belongings)

1

oneself and others; subject and object; transitivity; transitive verbs and intransitive verbs; first person and third person; self-salvation and salvation by faith

1

hoop (of a barrel, bucket, etc.); discipline; solidarity

1

awaken

4

deer (esp. the sika deer, Cervus nippon); cervid

1

race (of people); type of person

1

millstone; mortar

1

somehow; without knowing (it); unconsciously; unthinkingly

2

long

9

good fortune; happiness; blessing; good luck

9

essential; substantial; substantive; intrinsic

1

Emperor Seiwa; Seiwa Tenno (850-880 CE, reigning: 858-876 CE)

1

to flow out; to stream out; to pour out; to gush forth; to leak; to ooze out

1

Yorichika

1

Yoshiie

1

powerful local clan; local strongman

1

eldest son's descendants

1

country dweller

1

seal

1

ban (e.g. on smoking); prohibition

1

not necessarily so; is not always true; there is no guarantee that ...; there is no telling

1

large household; large family; large group (of people); big organization; great wealth

1

returning to a capital city (esp. Kyoto)

1

hope; promise; expectation; anticipation; side of a structural member

1

craving; longing; thirsting

1

passionate love; ardent love; devotion

1

support; participation; assistance; complicity; conspiracy

1

to drive in (a nail, stake, etc.); to hammer in; to hit (a ball, etc.); to drive; to fire into; to shoot into; to input (data)

4

to come to know; to perceive; to realize; to realise; to become aware (of)

1

single-minded; intent; determined; wholehearted; earnest; devoted (to)

2

purity; innocence

1

tension; resilience (e.g. of hair); springiness; will power; spirit

1

echo; reverberation; sound (esp. the distinctive sound of an object or activity, e.g. rain, gun, gallop, drum); noise; quality of a sound (e.g. a fine phrase, clear voice, resonant bell); feeling of a sound

2

box; case; car (of a train, etc.); shamisen case; shamisen; public building; community building

4

Izu (former province located on the Izu Peninsula in present-day Shizuoka Prefecture, and the Izu Islands)

3

Okinokojima

1

sea god; Poseidon; Neptune; sea; ocean

1

hot water; hot bath; hot spring; molten iron

1

mountain

2

thin, white ceremonial haori worn by miko

1

Tamatsubaki

1

occasional; infrequent; rare

1

country; state; region; national government; central government; home (i.e. hometown, home country); province (of Japan)

7

shaman (Okinawa, Amami); medium; exorcist

1