jpdb beta

study; scholarship; learning; discipline; branch of learning; (a) science

5

selling by the piece

1

intentionally; deliberately; designedly; especially; particularly

1

... and eastward; east of

1

present age; present day; today; modern era; modern times

4

head; brains; intellect; understanding

3

accumulation; accumulate; store

1

extraordinary; uncommon

1

toil and moil; working assiduously for; tireless hard work; painstaking labor (labour)

1

hardship; toil; trouble

2

(good) result; outcome; fruits (of one's labors); product; accomplishment

1

skull; cranium

1

supremacy; predominance; being superior to

1

funds; capital

2

making money; making a profit

1

bald head; baldness

1

breakfast

1

to hate; to detest

1

and; moreover; besides; as well as; and on top of that; at the same time

4

to scoff; to laugh at; to make fun of; to ridicule; to jeer at

1

tenement house; row house

1

usurer; usury; loansharking

1

bear (any mammal of family Ursidae)

7

Taishō era (1912.7.30-1926.12.25); Taisho era

3

memorial service (esp. for war dead)

2

pupil; student; schoolchild

13

visit to a shrine or temple; paying homage at a shrine or temple

1

school gate

1

column

1

sound of water

2

person killed in action; the war dead

1

umbrella; parasol; something shaped like an umbrella or a conical hat; shade (of a lamp); mushroom cap

4

admonitory speech (e.g. to students); words of admonition

1

to get wet

2

Japanese and Chinese literature

1

good fortune (esp. omikuji fortune-telling result); good luck; auspiciousness; unspecified day of the month (used to obscure the date a letter, invitation, etc. was written)

1

glasses; eyeglasses; spectacles; judgment; judgement; discrimination

1

with a momentary flash of light

1

to make narrower; to shut (an umbrella); to shrug (one's shoulders); to purse (one's lips)

1

to raise overhead

2

castle

1

rear gate (esp. of castle); back entrance; one who arrests; force attacking the rear of a castle; (opponent's) weak point

1

explanation; excuse; clarification; vindication; apology

1

strike (i.e. industrial action)

1

resolution; vote; decision

1

staff meeting

1

dropping out of school; withdrawing from school; expulsion from school; dismissal; leaving school (university, etc.) after completing a course

4

next day

1

news

1

report (of news); reporting; news; information; (media) coverage

2