jpdb beta

turning point

1

good luck; fortune; happiness; harvest; yield

3

authority and force

1

the very thing; itself

1

coherence; order; focus; point

1

main temple building; nave

1

sutra chanting

1

posthumous Buddhist name

1

wife; your wife; his wife; married lady; madam

1

son

1

to lose (through death) (e.g. wife, child)

1

eyebrow; eyebrows

1

of good omen; auspicious; lucky; auguring well (for); boding well (for)

1

male temple employee (esp. one who does odd jobs)

1

cleaning; sweeping; dusting; scrubbing

1

Karato

1

in front of a grave

1

gatha (poetic verse of a scripture)

1

fleeting life; this transient world; sad world; world of grief and worry; the world of the living; this life

1

to settle (a problem); to put an end to (a dispute); to be disposed of; to be settled; to come to an end

1

navy

3

shock; impact; crash

1

custom; practice; said; aforementioned; instance; example

1

presentiment; premonition; hunch; to have a premonition; to have a hunch

1

to fret (over); to brood (about); to mope; worriedly; (fretting) constantly; (worrying) over this and that

1

optimistic

2

art gallery; art museum

1

coffee room (hotel, office building, etc.); tea room

2

to meet; to meet up; to rendezvous; to join (of roads, rivers, etc.); to flow together

1

circumference; girth; surroundings; neighbourhood; people surrounding oneself; surrounding circumstances

1

bubble; foam; froth; head on beer

1

clap (sound of wooden clappers); chop vigorously; slight movement (e.g. poke, small bird alighting); the end; originally end of a play, marked by clap of clappers; dot (esp. typographical)

1

to collect; to assemble; to gather

1

exactly the same; exactly as is; without any change

1

presentation (of documents); submission (of an application, report, etc.); production (e.g. of evidence); introduction (e.g. of a bill); filing; turning in

1

sumi; India ink; squid ink; octopus ink; carpenter's inking string

2

write jointly; collection of autographs

1

fat; tallow; lard; grease

1

one's twenties

1

to obtain; to procure

1

Herculean task; next-to-impossible undertaking

1

large forest

1

Benten (goddess of arts and wisdom)

1

darkness; the dark

1

middle-aged woman

1

in the company of; accompanied by ...; as a group comprising ...; likes of ...

1

that gentleman; that lady; he; she

1

huh?; eh?; what?; oh; hey!; look!

1

destitution

1

happiness; blessedness; luck; luckily; fortunately

1