jpdb beta

A Dark Night's Passing (novel by Shiga Naoya)

1

fundamental; basic

2

mistake; error; fallacy

3

clamour; crowd; jostle

1

occasion; time; section (of a literary work or piece of music); passage; clause; season; term

1

bamboo grass; generally smaller species of running bamboo that do not shed their sheaths (e.g. Sasa spp.)

4

something to rely on; aid; someone to rely on; relative; reminder; memento

1

worldly affairs; public affairs

1

edge (brow) of mountain

2

faint; indistinct; dim; vague; subtle; delicate

1

to look after (often medically); to take care of

1

disorder; chaos; confusion; mayhem

6

tumult; great noise; clatter; hustle and bustle

5

rough or steep path

1

3 o'clock; afternoon snack (eaten around 3 o'clock); three ages of Buddhism (following the death of Gautama Buddha; age of the true law, age of the copied law, and age of the degeneration of the law); three ages of the dharma

1

advance; charge

7

timewise; temporal; chronal

1

(short) rest; breather; break

1

so; accordingly; now; then; thereupon; therefore

1

enemy movements; enemy's position

1

circumference; outskirts; environs; (computer) peripheral

1

high tide; high water; full tide

1

I; me; (royal) we

2

native

1

daybreak; dawn; gray of the morning (grey); dawn (of a new age)

1

dawn; daybreak; beginning

1

matter; affair; counter for (received) emails, text messages, voicemail messages, etc.; counter for accounts (on a website, email service, etc.)

1

simultaneous; all at once

2

in a bag or one's purse

1

a handful (of); grasping (with one hand); gripping; grabbing

1

must not; do not

1

earnestly; immediately; exactly

1

level; even; flat; uneventful; peaceful; monotonous

2

each other; one another

2

to jostle; to crowd; to haggle

2

mountain stream; valley; dale; wetlands; swamp; marsh

1

cliff; precipice; precipice; brink of a dangerous situation

8

camel cricket (Diestrammena apicalis); camelback cricket; (arch.) all the more; (arch.) increasingly; (arch.) on top of; (arch.) despite

1

mid-air; mid-heaven; zenith

2

path of retreat

1

to be distant

1

overwhelming

1

widow; divorced woman not remarried; unmarried woman

1

ordinary; common; commonplace; mediocre; unremarkable; undistinguished

2

creed; belief; conviction; article of faith

1

to choose; to select; to pick (out)

1

in accordance with; according to; as X, then Y (e.g. as we age we gain wisdom, as wine matures it becomes more valuable, etc.)

1

usually; ordinarily; always; continuous; 24-hour (operation, care, etc.); constant

1

service

1

politics; political manoeuvre; political maneuver

1