jpdb beta

respect

1

to have an interest (in)

1

to go out to meet; to receive; to call for; to summon; to accept (e.g. as a member of a group or family); to take (e.g. a wife)

3

the four seasons

2

contrary; opposite; inverse; reverse; back-to-front

1

spurious article; forgery; counterfeit; imitation; sham

1

foxes and tanuki; sly fellow; deceiver

4

great majority

2

in case of; at that time; at this time

4

luxuriant (dense) forest

2

degenerate age; corrupt world; age of the decline of Buddhism; latter days of the law

1

proof; evidence; sign; witnessing; testifying; testimony

2

Zen (Buddhism)

1

bizarre; strange; weird; grotesque

1

to refuse; to reject; to repel; to repulse; to make (someone) leave; to send away

1

to hand down; to pass on (story or tradition)

9

babysitting; babysitter; protecting; keeping; keeper

2

Tsurunishi

1

temple; shrine; hall; company; (arch.) front room

6

tenmoku; ceramics (esp. tea bowls) with a dark glaze that resembles oil spotting; tenmoku tea-bowl; dark-glazed conical tea-bowl of Chinese origin

1

treasured article

1

crane (any bird of the family Gruidae, esp. the red-crowned crane, Grus japonensis)

2

slight; insignificant; small

1

to laugh; to smile; to sneer; to ridicule; to be dumbfounded; to be flabbergasted

11

self; oneself

1

provincial capital (under the ritsuryō system); provincial office; public place of imperial rule

2

chief priest (of a Buddhist temple); abbot

1

Tsukushi (former province located in northern Kyūshū; later split into Chikuzen and Chikugo); Kyūshū

1

third place; third rank; third rank (in the Japanese court system); Trinity; the Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit

1

standing up

1

origin; source; history; originally; from the start; by nature

4

to exist; to remain; to consist (in); to lie (in); to retain; to preserve

5

Yokohama (city)

1

Sekimura

1

going to China

1

heavenly god; heavenly gods; spirit of Sugawara no Michizane; Tenmangu shrine (dedicated to Michizane's spirit); pit of a dried plum; dried plum; tenjin hairstyle

2

image; figure; figure; form; image

2

new edition; new compilation

1

manuscript; version; draft

1

useful; helpful

1

harmless

2

virtues of Buddha

1

("like this"; often the opening word of a sutra); ten thusnesses (in Tendai)

1

damn it; damn; beast; animal; person reborn into the animal realm; brute

1

to be based (on); to be founded (on); to be grounded (on); to be due to; to come (from); to arise (from)

4

to judge; to decide; to solve; to decipher; to divine; to guess

2

the people; citizens; the populace

4

diligent; absorbed (in something)

1

to avoid; to evade

1

wholly; solely; entirely; principally; mostly; chiefly

2