jpdb beta

forked tree; forked branch

1

a lot; plenty; abundant; exaggerated; grandiose

4

one of these days; someday; one day

1

conditions of a country

1

birth; lineage; identity; background; provenance; origin

2

porcelain (esp. soft-paste porcelain); china; chinaware; earthenware; pottery; ceramics

3

technology; engineering; technique; skill; art; craft

1

shadow; silhouette; reflection; image; ominous sign; light (stars, moon)

2

(arch.) a weight; temple supervisor; town (of China)

2

throughout; over a period of ...; over a span of ...

1

there; that place

2

foreign country

7

return to one's country

5

to bring (someone) back home; to take (someone) back home

1

to raise (to maturity); to bring up; to rear; to train; to educate

1

ill-natured; mean; mischievous; nasty; unkind; teasing

1

in advance; beforehand; previously

1

to have a talk; to tell a story

2

measuring by feel; adjusting by feel; doing by feel; adapting to the situation (one's strength, strictness, etc.); making allowances; using discretion

1

to be embarrassed; to lose face

1

things; matters

1

a particular; a certain; that kind of; such a

4

to be interested in; to take an interest in; to care about

1

shallow; superficial

1

It's nothing!; Don't mention it!

2

well-informed person; thinking person; intelligent person

1

Siam (former name of Thailand)

5

business affairs of a company; clerical business of a Shinto shrine

5

bass range (in Japanese music); six even-numbered notes of the ancient chromatic scale; Japanese seven-tone gagaku scale similar to Mixolydian mode (corresp. to: re, mi, fa, so, la, ti, do)

7

Song dynasty (China, 960-1279); Sung dynasty; Liu Song dynasty (China, 420-479); Liu Sung dynasty; Song (ancient Chinese state, 11th century-286 BCE); Sung

6

whereabout; about where; how much

1

entirely; (not) at all

1

in 8 or 9 cases out of ten; in all probability

1

container; receptacle; utensil; implement; calibre; talent

1

through; throughout; through (the good offices of); by way of

1

(the products of) culture or civilization (civilisation)

2

ocean transportation; importation

3

napa cabbage (Brassica rapa subsp. pekinensis); nappa cabbage; Chinese cabbage

2

please

1

many people; a large number of people

1

Netherlands; Holland

4

missionary

19

padre; title for Portuguese Jesuits (in Japan in the 16th century); Christianity; Christian

12

teahouse garden

1

bookmark; guidebook

2

calm; graceful; quiet; mellow; damp; moist

1

conifer; needle-leaved tree

1

to hurry; to rush

2

cloth made from kudzu (Japanese arrowroot) fiber (fibre)

1

dyer's knotweed (Persicaria tinctoria, used to produce indigo dye); indigo (dye); indigo (colour)

1