jpdb beta

conservative without party affiliation

1

courtesy; sincerity

1

deformity; distortion; disability; word written at the end of a letter

5

one's best interests; one's own good

1

mountain path

1

Tokaido (Edo-period Edo-Kyoto highway)

3

sending or passing along

1

crawling on the ground; shuffling on one's knees; cripple

2

Teruo

7

first flower of the season or year; first flowering on a plant; first menstruation; woman who has just reached adulthood

3

adultery; illicit intercourse

1

foreign country; other country; another province; strange land; alien land

1

exile; banishment; eviction; elimination (e.g. of poverty); removal

1

shelving (a play, movie, etc.); closing down; cancelling; rice storehouse of the Edo shogunate

1

agglutination; adhesion

1

meals exchanged by parishioners and priests

3

rotation; making the rounds; spreading; effect; efficacy; by way of; via

2

measurement; size; extent; plan; intention; arrangement

1

to assemble; to set up; to construct

1

waterfall; (arch.) rapids

2

stream; brook; creek

1

journey; route of a journey

2

depending on; dependent on

1

believer; adherent; devotee; fanboy; fanatic; superfan

1

(arch.) eastern Japan (esp. Kamakura or Edo, from perspective of Kyoto or Nara); (arch.) eastern provinces; (arch.) east; wagon; yamatogoto

1

center; centre; metropolis

1

one's nature; one's destiny; custom; tradition; habit

3

mid-stream; middle course; middle class

1

lieutenant general; vice-admiral

8

complication; intricacy; involution; to become complicated; to get entangled

1

you; noblewoman; lady

1

to misread; to read wrongly; to misinterpret

1

skylark (Alauda arvensis)

1

bhikkhuni (fully ordained Buddhist nun); travelling female entertainer dressed as a nun (Kamakura, Muromachi periods); lowly prostitute dressed as a nun (Edo period); female servant hired to take the blame for a noblewoman's farts

12

morning sun

1

principal object of worship at a temple (usu. a buddha or bodhisattva); principal image; idol; the man himself; the person at the heart of the matter

1

colour; color; complexion; skin colour; look (on one's face); expression; appearance

5

marriage proposal; marriage talks

1

to go mad; to lose one's mind; to get out of order; to go amiss; to go wrong (of a plan or expectation, etc.); to fall through

1

lady; (female) pervert

1

expulsion; ousting; ejection; dismissal; banishment

1

talk; story; conversation

12

father

3

guardians; parents; father and older brother

1

physical punishment; beating; smacking; severe scolding; chastisement; discipline

1

Mino (former province located in the south of present-day Gifu Prefecture)

1

Teruhi

3

blindness

2

slave traffic; slave dealer

1

change in pronunciation or meaning of a word; sound change; word with an altered pronunciation or meaning; turning or twisting part of a text (in Chinese poetry)

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