jpdb beta

poor (at); weak (in); not very good (at); not one's cup of tea; not one's favorite

3

trouble; hardship; difficulty; anxiety; worry; concern

3

question; inquiry; enquiry

1

rock (in rock-paper-scissors); stone; ungh; gulp; rumbling (of an empty stomach); growling

3

staying one night

1

ascent; climbing; ascending (path); upbound (esp. toward Tokyo)

3

(how) many times; (how) often

9

in short; in a word; to sum up; to put it simply; to make a long story short; after all

2

extraordinary; preposterous; outrageous; absurd

3

avarice

7

container; receptacle; vessel; packaging

1

container; case; receptacle; coffin; casket

1

human emotions (joy, anger, grief and pleasure)

1

to pile up; to heap up; to stir up; to enliven; to bring to a climax

1

disk; disc; tray; shallow bowl; grid; board (e.g. in shogi)

1

beauties of nature; the traditional themes of natural beauty in Japanese aesthetics; artistic pursuits involving nature themes

2

love; attachment; tender emotions; falling in love

1

to impress; to move one's heart; to touch (a person's heart)

1

about; roughly; generally; on the whole; completely; quite

1

prefix for forming ordinal numbers

6

tray; family; household; O-Bon; Bon Festival; gambler's den

1

to be too much for one; to find unmanageable; to be beyond one's control; to not know what to do with

5

himself; he himself

4

effort; exertion; endeavour; endeavor; hard work; striving

3

melting

1

(pair of) bellows

2

constant; persistent; indecisiveness; usual; normal

1

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

3

extraordinary; uncommon; remarkable; unusual; rare; prodigious

2

disinterested; unselfish; indifferent; detached

1

easy; likely to ...; have a tendency to ...; easy to ...

7

man of virtue; wise man; person of high rank; the four gentlemen (plum, chrysanthemum, orchid, and bamboo)

1

to be troubled; to have difficulty; to be bothered; to be inconvenienced; to be badly off; to be hard up

5

child in elementary or middle school; go-between; intermediary; (arch.) person of middling talent, strength, etc.; (arch.) middle-class person; (arch.) bourgeois person

1

counter for the ichi-ni-san counting system (usu. directly preceding the item being counted); noun read using its on-yomi; counter for articles; indicates possessive (esp. in place names)

22

to meet (wishes, expectations, etc.); to satisfy; to accompany; to go with; to associate with (someone); to mix with

4

crown (of head); summit (of mountain); easy win for one; something received

3

near; neighbourhood; nearly (e.g. "it took nearly one year"); close to; shortly; soon

12

poet

1

ecstasy; rapture; trance; senility

2

setting sun

2

solemn; sublime; grand; magnificent; impressive

1

well bucket

1

dropping; losing; missing item; something one forgot to write down; trap; wooden protrusion from a Japanese door frame that fits a hole in the threshold, acting as a lock when closed; conclusion (of a speech, etc.)

1

to begin to get dark; to begin to set (the Sun)

1

future years; in (one's) later years

4

military forces; hosts; troops

10

Masaie

1

dear (old); fondly-remembered; beloved; missed; nostalgic

1

polishing one's sword; (fig.) improving one's talents or knowledge

1