jpdb beta

cooked rice; meal; food; one's living; livelihood

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ancestral spirits

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sowing beans (or pulses, etc.); scattering parched beans (to drive out evil spirits)

2

kombu (usu. Saccharina japonica); konbu; kelp; any edible species from the family Laminariaceae

2

just (e.g. "just wait here"); come now; tolerably; passably; well...; I think...

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large; big; older; senior; final; ultimate

3

and; or; and the like; and so forth; and what not

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private university

1

I; me; personal (affairs, etc.); private; selfishness; partiality

1

is it?; isn't it?; be; is

1

eighth day of the month; eight days

1

salt; common salt; hardship; toil; saltiness; cold

4

storage; preservation

2

bamboo shoot; inexperienced doctor; quack

2

bamboo shoot

1

Java water dropwort (Oenanthe javanica); Japanese parsley

1

competing; competition; auction

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resuming work after the New Year's vacation; first time that one works in the year

1

field (for fruits, vegetables, etc.); cultivated land; field (of specialization); sphere; womb; birth

3

guardian deity of a ship

1

public holiday; celebration (of)

2

(hard) candy; toffee; rice-sugar; sugar made from the starch of rice, potatoes, etc.; amber; yellowish-brown

3

needle; pin; hook; stinger; thorn; hand (e.g. clock, etc.); pointer

3

thirteenth day of the month; thirteen days

2

lion dance; traditional dance performed by one or more dancers wearing a guardian lion costume

1

to turn; to revolve; to visit several places; to function well; to pass a certain time

3

bear (any mammal of family Ursidae)

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

1

staff with plaited paper streamers

3

itinerant Buddhist monk; practitioner of Shugendō

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to act (a part); to play (a role); to perform (a play, etc.); to put on (a production); to commit (a blunder); to pretend (e.g. to be a good father)

1

pure; sheer

1

pure; sheer

1

prayer; grace (at meals); exorcism

4

lion mask; Japanese deer fern (Blechnum nipponicum)

2

in addition

1

to scatter; to cause a shower of; to disperse; to distribute; to resolve (a symptom, condition, etc.); to relieve

1

shoji (paper sliding door)

8

to bite; to chew; to gnaw; to fumble one's words (esp. during a play, broadcast, etc.); to falter with one's words; to crash against (e.g. of waves); to break onto (shore)

1

imitating; copying; mimicry; behavior; behaviour; action

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this

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measuring container; measure; box (seating at a theatre, etc.); square on a grid; cell of a grid; square bearing block (at the top of a pillar)

2

mirror; looking-glass; barrel head; page added at the beginning of a document mentioning its purpose, date, author, etc.; mirror-shaped mochi

4

congratulation; congratulations; celebration; congratulatory gift; present

2

voices (of many people)

1

evening; dusk

2

empty rice field (between the harvest and spring)

1

man

2

to place on (something); to give (someone) a ride; to give a lift; to load (luggage); to carry; to send out (on the airwaves, etc.); to deceive

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boy; juvenile; young boy; youth; lad

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