jpdb beta

old age

1

Kodayuu

1

elbowing (someone); rejection; rebuff

1

Masae

3

Chuuta

2

private secretary; amanuensis

1

miso soup

1

chasing down; pushing down; deposing; sacrificing to create a shortage of liberties, then capturing (in the game of go)

1

Wood Rat (1st year of the sexagenary cycle, e.g. 1924, 1984, 2044)

1

to liberate; to set free

2

exactly the same; identical; exact; perfect

1

night chat; tale told at night; evening tea party (starting around 6pm); book of informal essays

1

Orie

20

loving something but being very bad at it

1

ninja

1

to go to; to visit; to call on

1

Shin'ichirō

1

thank you for your continued patronage

1

technique; art; skill; move

1

Kanbee

5

mother

1

skill; dexterity; master hand

1

cannon

1

garden watchman; garden keeper; guard of the inner garden

1

father; Dad

1

transverse flute (e.g. a fife)

2

clear broth soup, with ingredients and garnish floating in and on it

1

temple elementary school (during the Edo period)

1

something unrelated (to what has been discussed thus far)

1

to steal

2

fingering an object (in killing time); amusing oneself; diversion; gambling

1

manager; steward; factotum; useful person

1

one's wife; one's wife and daughter or daughters

5

(wind or human-powered) warship

1

to repeat a mistake (of somebody); to make the same mistake as that of ...; (lit.) to follow the rut (left by someone else)

1

to think deep down (that); to tell oneself (that); to secretly believe (that)

1

inlet; cove; creek; bay

1

secret message

1

mother; mom; mum; mama

4

western part of Japan (esp. Kyushu, but ranging as far east as Kinki); western nations (esp. India or Europe); thirty-three temples in the Kinki area containing statues of Kannon (Avalokitesvara); pilgrimage to the thirty-three temples sacred to Kannon

1

main office; this office

1

discussion; deliberation; consideration; investigation (into a suspect); inquiry; enquiry

1

all one's life; throughout one's life; as long as one lives

1

feudal lord; daimyo

1

member of shogun's council of elders

4

evil spirits of rivers and mountains

1

details; particulars

1

feudal retainer or warrior

1

to maintain itself; to last; to make itself pay; to make a living; to keep going

1

stipend; reward

1