jpdb beta

bamboo dealer; person selling bamboo or articles made of bamboo; house made of bamboo

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hoarse voice; husky voice

3

land near a castle; castle town

1

gidayū (type of reciting used in the puppet theater)

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jōruri; type of dramatic recitation accompanied by a shamisen (associated with Japanese puppet theater)

2

practice; practising; training; study

1

master; teacher; stable master

1

Tosa (former province located in present-day Kochi Prefecture)

1

packhorse driver

1

rise; increase; income; takings; completion; end; end result (e.g. of crafts)

1

confidence; trust; faith; credit (finance)

1

to injure; to damage; to kill; to hinder; to obstruct

1

at this juncture; after all this time; at this stage; now

1

resentment; grudge; malice; matter for regret; regret

2

reproachful; hateful; bitter

1

good; excellent; sufficient; enough; profitable (deal, business offer, etc.); beneficial

1

request; favor; favour; reliance; dependence; trust

1

to pay attention; to be watchful

1

relation; relative; kind; cordial

1

to care for someone; to look after someone

1

life story; personal narrative; story of one's life

1

pursuit of knowledge; studying; learning; training; completing a course

1

food (esp. staple food such as rice or wheat); provisions; rations; food supply

3

secluding oneself in the mountains; undertaking ascetic practices at a mountain temple; retreat; off-site meeting

2

unique; peculiar; singular

1

undergoing training; learning

1

humanity; empathy; kindness; human nature; common sense; customs and manners

1

character; traits; ethos

1

should do; ought to do

1

preparation; arrangements; getting ready; provision; setup; reserving

1

cherry tree; cherry blossom; fake buyer; paid audience; hired applauder; horse meat

1

torii; Shinto shrine archway

1

(mountain) pass; highest point on a mountain road; ridge; peak (e.g. of summer); worst (e.g. of an illness); crisis

1

ancient battlefield

1

convenient; handy; useful

1

never (even in error); never, ever; never, no matter what happens; by no means

1

stranger; person from another place

1

along (wall, coast, river, etc.); alongside; following

1

facing the east; east face; east side; the east

1

gō; traditional unit of volume, approx. 0.1804 litres; gō; traditional unit of area, approx 0.33 metres square; one-tenth of the way from the base to the summit of a mountain; conjunction; sum

1

eye; eyeball; eyesight; sight; look; stare; notice

1

top; summit; peak

8

to cut into

1

inclination; slant; slope; bevel; list; dip

1

valley (with a river running through it); gorge; ravine; canyon

2

confluence (of rivers); merge (of traffic); conflux; union (e.g. of forces); linking up; merging

1

slope; incline; slope (of a linear function); gradient (vector calculus)

3

red-blossomed plum tree; red Japanese apricot

2

topography

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folds of a mountain

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