jpdb beta

one year; some time ago

3

good; advantage; sake; purpose; consequence; result

2

to build up; to establish; to form; to become (a state); to accomplish; to achieve; to change into

1

recollection; reminiscence

1

last year

2

oneself; myself

1

time; years; days; the Moon and the Sun

1

great majority

1

consideration; sympathy; compassion

1

heroic; brave; majestic; soul-stirring; lively; gallant

1

geta; Japanese wooden clogs; turn (in set-type proofing); upside-down character

1

common property or characteristic

1

one's own strength; one's own efforts; self-salvation

1

imprudence; indiscretion; thoughtlessness

1

shallow; superficial; thoughtless; short-sighted; foolish; silly

1

old name for a cave cricket; even though; despite; even more

1

at all times; day in, day out; constantly; always

1

body

2

to carry around; to carry on one's person

1

quite; utterly; really; completely

1

folding into four; quarto

1

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

1

miscellaneous notes

1

inkstone case

2

impressions; thoughts; feelings; reactions

1

Zen terminology; Zen words

1

next time (occasion)

1

here and there; in places

1

picture drawn from life

1

blank space; margin; blank canvas

1

scriptural text; scriptures; sutras

1

address (e.g. opening or closing remarks); speech; ci (Chinese literary form); ancillary word

1

section (i.e. of text); sentence; phrase; verse (of 5 or 7 mora in Japanese poetry; of 4, 5, or 7 characters in Chinese poetry); haiku; first 17 morae of a renga, etc.

1

poem; poetry; verse; Chinese poem

1

laborious composition; struggling to compose a poem

1

figure of speech; rhetorical flourish

1

to rewrite; to adapt (e.g. a novel)

1

to throw; to cast (e.g. vote, light, shadow); to devote oneself (e.g. to a cause); to invest; to put in; to administer (medicine); to give

1

to be conceivable that; to be thinkable that

1

constant; persistent; indecisiveness; usual; normal

1

ideal; ideals

3

root of a tooth; fang

1

shivering; trembling

1

foreboding

1

feelings; emotion; compassion; sympathy; passion; affection

1

to knock at the gate; to request an apprenticeship; to ask to be made a pupil

2

to ask; to inquire; to blame (someone) for; to accuse of; to care about; to regard as important

1

strong protest; demand for an explanation; serious talk

1

cut end; section; opening; point of view; (different) perspective; new approach

1

stiff formality; set terms

1