jpdb beta

to break; to fracture; to fold; to bend; to make (origami); to interrupt

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Rikkou

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stake; post; pile; (arch.) stump

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waterfall; (arch.) rapids

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short (of a person)

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if anything; if pushed I'd say; if I had to say

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shabby; seedy

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grated daikon; daikon grater

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modesty; humility; being humble

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to teach; to instruct; to tell; to inform; to preach

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native Japanese reading of a Chinese character; precept; lesson; one's teachings

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great; excellent; very troublesome; awful; tiring; tough

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Buddhist priest; monk; boy

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honourable poverty; honorable poverty

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to select; to pick out

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family crest shaped as a hemp leaf; motif made from entwined hexagons

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to consist of; to be made up of; to be concluded (e.g. of an agreement); to hold true (e.g. of a theory); to be viable (of a business, lifestyle, etc.); to carry on

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Sanuki (former province located in present-day Kagawa Prefecture)

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Tosa (former province located in present-day Kochi Prefecture)

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Kagawa (prefecture)

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Tokushima (city, prefecture)

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Kōchi (city, prefecture)

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Ehime (prefecture)

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in order; in turn; one by one

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Nankaidō (alt. name for the Shikoku region)

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something like ...; things like ...; someone like ...; the likes of ...

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movement; transfer; migration; mobile; moving; traveling

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Seto Inland Sea; Inland Sea

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to separate (by distance, time, etc.); to isolate; to interpose; to have between; to alienate; to estrange

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ocean

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warming; warmth

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to dash over oneself (e.g. water); to take (e.g. shower); to bask in (e.g. the sun); to suffer (e.g. an attack); to draw (e.g. criticism, attention, praise); to have heaped upon

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88 temples (of, or modeled after those of, Shikoku)

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pilgrimage; pilgrim

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rape blossoms; rapeseed flowers

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to bloom in profusion

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pilgrimage; pilgrim

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clearly miraculous; remarkably miraculous; striking

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Avalokiteshvara (Bodhisattva); Avalokitesvara; Kannon; Kwannon; Guanyin; Buddhist deity of compassion

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to deify; to enshrine; to pray; to worship

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type of household amulet or talisman, issued by a Shinto shrine, hung in the house for protection

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counter for tours, cycles, rounds, circuits, etc.

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Kagawa prefecture (Shikoku)

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Ritsurin Park

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law (esp. ancient East Asian criminal code); regulation; vinaya (rules for the monastic community); Ritsu (school of Buddhism); lüshi (style of Chinese poem); (musical) pitch; six odd-numbered notes of the ancient chromatic scale

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Genji and Heike clans; two opposing sides

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battle; fight; war; struggle; conflict

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guardian deity of seafaring; Kumbhira

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koto (13-stringed Japanese zither); (arch.) stringed instrument

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to greedily try to win big (e.g. in mahjong); to swipe; to nick; to pilfer

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