jpdb beta

correspondence; communication; transmission; news; signal; telecommunications

1

to meet fortuitously (e.g. running into an old friend); to meet by chance; to happen across

1

pretending not to see something; turning a blind eye to; burying one's head in the sand

1

advocate (of a theory or principle); ideologist; -ist (i.e. adherent to a belief system); (arch.) socialist; (arch.) communist

1

antics; buffoonery; clowning; clown; jester

1

nonsense; irresponsible remark; codswallop; random; haphazard; unsystematic

3

people; citizens; subjects; folk

2

armed might; military power; the sword; force

1

to apply; to adapt

1

cultivation

2

Western person

1

digression; many divergences

1

fruit tree

2

international; worldwide; cross-border; cosmopolitan

1

Ministry of Education, Science and Culture (1871-2001)

2

restrictions on the number of kanji recognized for usage (recognised)

1

new kana orthography (1946 reform, amended 1986); modern kana orthography

1

head-on; to one's face; squarely; directly; flatly (e.g. refuse)

1

burden; load; responsibility; bearing (a cost, responsibility, etc.); shouldering

1

light (i.e. not heavy); feeling light (i.e. offering little resistance, moving easily); light (i.e. of foot); effortless; non-serious; minor; slight

1

to try and do something; to attempt to do something

4

invisibly; secretly; privately

2

frivolous; flippant; superficial; shallow; trifling; insincere

4

to sniff out; to get wind of

1

engine

1

manner of using one's hands

1

modern Japanese

1

to follow suit; to imitate or follow someone blindly; to ride on someone's back; to ride someone's coattails; to take advantage (e.g. of another's popularity)

1

engineer

1

pity; sorrow; pitiable; pitiful; alack; alas

1

defeated country

1

to calm down; to compose oneself; to calm down; to settle down; to settle down (in a location, job, etc.); to settle in; to be settled

1

(divine) providence; dispensation

1

side road; byroad; digression (e.g. from argument)

2

Masaoka Shiki (1867-1902)

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Man'yōshū (8th century anthology of Japanese poetry); (arch.) thousands of leaves; (arch.) thousands of years; (arch.) all ages

6

revival; reconstruction; restoration; rebuilding; recovery; renaissance

1

lesser cuckoo (Cuculus poliocephalus)

3

Saitou Mokichi (1882-1953)

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tanka; 31-mora Japanese poem

1

easy; simple; ready; casual; off-hand; easy-going

1

to be used up; to be run out; to be exhausted; to be consumed; to come to an end

2

Saitou

2

appearance; look; a 'seeming' that fortune-tellers relate to one's fortune; aspect; phase (e.g. solid, liquid and gaseous)

2

insight; penetration

3

Buddhist scriptures; sutras

2

emptiness; vacuum; blank

3

sea; ocean; waters

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witnessing; observing; sighting

2

absolutely (ought to); by all means; all; entirely

1