jpdb beta

what people say; rumours; public opinion

1

beak; bill

2

ambition; aspiration; sinister designs; treachery

3

information; news; intelligence; information; data contained in characters, signals, code, etc.

1

black clothes

1

secret; clandestine; covert; spy (for a daimyo, shogun, etc.); secret agent

1

good luck; fortune; happiness; harvest; yield

4

one large ...; a great ...

1

fortress (surrounded by a wall, moat, etc.)

1

rise and fall; ups and downs; welfare; vicissitudes

1

before one's eyes

2

to view; to contemplate

2

farewell address; parting words

1

power; authority; jurisdiction

1

leaving (e.g. work at end of day); withdrawal (e.g. from a noble's or superior's presence); exit (e.g. from a market)

2

back (esp. of a building, etc.); rear; behind

1

to be tonsured; to have one's head shaved; to become a monk

1

neophyte; novice

3

door; doorway

1

cute; pretty

1

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

1

(criminal) punishment; penalty; sentence

1

to manage; to deal with; to cope with; to sentence; to condemn; to punish

1

occasion; time; section (of a literary work); paragraph; season; term; principle

1

trembling (with fear, cold, etc.); shaking; chattering (of teeth); coming loose; wobbling

1

to flicker; to glimmer; to flit; to fall lightly (snow, rain)

1

by ones and twos; tears or flower petals falling quietly; gurgling bird sound; falling apart; crumbling; dish made from fiveleaf aralia sprouts, pickled daikon, walnuts, etc.

2

feeble

1

Tamon

1

moral sense

14

something (equipped) with legs; sole of foot; one's manner of walking

1

abattoir; slaughterhouse

1

sheep (Ovis aries)

2

describing; comparing; form; figure; personal appearance; one's face and figure

1

Namu Amida Butsu; Hail Amitabha Buddha; Homage to Amida Buddha; prayer for rebirth in Sukhavati, the Pure Land of Amitabha

1

place of execution

1

to recite; to chant; to cry; to yell; to advocate; to advance

1

hilly section of a city (usu. residential); Yamanote (hilly residential section of western Tokyo, incl. Yotsuya, Aoyama, Koishikawa, Hongo, Ichigaya, Akasaka, Azabu and surrounds); place near the mountains

1

residential area

2

Japan and the Philippines

1

low-lying part of a city (usu. containing shops, factories, etc.); Shitamachi (low-lying area of eastern Tokyo near Tokyo Bay, incl. Asakusa, Shitaya, Kanda, Fukugawa, Honjo, Nihonbashi, Kyobashi and surrounds)

1

pedestrian traffic

1

fleeting life; this transient world; sad world; world of grief and worry; the world of the living; this life

3

intoning the name of the Buddha; chanting the name of the Buddha

2

in the end; on top of that

1

to run along; to run beside; to follow (a policy, plan, etc.); to act in accordance with; to meet (wishes, expectations, etc.); to satisfy

1

major company; big company; front castle gate; force attacking the front of a castle

1

slanting; tilted; sloping; distorted (feeling); slanted (e.g. view of the world); bad (mood)

1

1000 ri; (a) long distance

1

canal; waterway; ditch

1