木綿以前の事 – Vocabulary list

実じつ話わ

true story

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想そう像ぞう力りょく

(power of) imagination

1

慰い藉しゃ

consolation

1

医い者しゃ

(medical) doctor; physician

3

ちっと

a little bit; a little while

1

業ぎょう績せき

achievement; performance; results; work; contribution

1

類るい例れい

similar instance; similar case; parallel case; analogy

1

社しゃ会かい的てき地ち位い

social status; social position

1

通つう常じょう

usual; ordinary; normal; regular; general; common

1

研けん究きゅう者しゃ

researcher

2

ファン

fan; enthusiast; lover (of); fan (e.g. electric)

1

俳はい句く

haiku; 17-mora poem, usu. in 3 lines of 5, 7 and 5 morae

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としたことが

of all people

1

埋まい没ぼつ

being buried; remaining unknown; being forgotten; being absorbed (e.g. in research); being immersed

3

示じ寂じゃく

death of a high-ranking priest

1

じじゃく

self-possessed; composed

1

数すう十じゅう年ねん

few decades; many decades; several decades

1

結けっ集しゅう

concentration (of efforts, forces, etc.); gathering together; regimentation; marshalling; mobilization

1

ケツ

ass; arse; rear; end; acupuncture point; hole

2

経きょう典てん

sacred books; sutras; scriptures; Bible

1

異い本ほん

variant edition (of a book); alternative version; different manuscript; strange book; rare book; unique book

1

テキスト

text; textbook

1

確かく定てい

decision; settlement; definition

1

何なにかというと

on the least pretext; at the drop of a hat

3

誤ご写しゃ

error in copying

1

推すい定てい

presumption; assumption; estimation

1

勝かっ手て放ほう題だい

at one's sweet will; doing whatever one pleases; however one pleases

2

何なん百びゃく

hundreds

1

伝でん本ぽん

existing manuscript; extant copy; manuscript handed down from the past

1

万まん葉よう集しゅう

Man'yōshū (8th century anthology of Japanese poetry)

2

かたる

to swindle out of; to cheat out of; to defraud of; to misrepresent oneself as; to pretend to be; to assume (a name or title)

1

どれもこれも

each and every; all

2

宗そう匠しょう

master; teacher

3

高こう等とう学がっ校こう

senior high school; high school

1

略りゃく語ご

abbreviation; acronym

1

新しん時じ代だい

new era; new period; new age; new epoch

1

功こう労ろう者しゃ

person who has rendered distinguished service

1

正まさ岡おか子し規き

Masaoka Shiki (1867-1902)

1

開かい山さん

founding a temple (on a hill-top)

1

子規ほととぎす

lesser cuckoo (Cuculus poliocephalus)

1

唱しょう導どう

leading (movement, revolution, etc.); guiding; instructing in Buddhism; converting (someone) to Buddhism; advocacy

1

明めい言げん

declaration; statement

1

新しん境きょう地ち

new ground (science, art, etc.); new front; new scope; frontier

2

抹まっ殺さつ

erasure; denial; obliteration; ignoring (an opinion)

1

歴れき史し的てき

historic; historical; traditional

1

専せん攻こう

major subject; special study

1

学がく生せい

student (esp. a university student)

1

正しょう面めんから

(confronting a problem, etc.) head-on; directly; outright; (lit.) from the front

3

差さし控ひかえる

to be moderate in; to be temperate in; to refrain (from doing); to withhold (an announcement, comment, etc.); to be beside; to be close by

1

持もって来くる

to bring; to take (something) along; to fetch; to get

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Vocabulary list: 木綿以前の事