jpdb beta

assistant chief of staff, g1

1

sulfur (S); sulphur

2

taking up a new post

1

guarantor; surety; sponsor; reference; bondsman

1

adoptive heir

2

entry in family register

1

wind blowing down, coming over a mountain; immediately after one's draw; winning off a discarded tile from the player to one's right or across the table on the turn after letting one's winning tile go by from the player to one's left

1

Amitabha (Buddha); Amida; ghostleg lottery; ladder lottery; wearing a hat pushed back on one's head

1

art motif

1

long poem

1

to float; to be suspended; to rise to the surface; to appear; to come to mind; to have inspiration

1

publisher; publishing house; publishing company

1

to ferry across (e.g. a river); to carry across; to lay across; to build across; to hand over; to hand in

1

Echigo (former province located in present-day Niigata Prefecture)

1

Deyuonsen

1

counter for jewels in a watch; counter for transistors, diodes, etc. in an electronic product

1

arbor; arbour; suffix forming the final part of the pseudonyms of some writers and performers; suffix forming the final part of the name of a restaurant

1

(convalescent) rest

1

printing

1

poetry anthology; collection of poems; collected poems

4

wartime fire; war; wartime destruction; horrors of war

2

destruction by fire; losing in a fire; being burnt down

2

prior; beforehand; in advance; before the fact; ex ante

1

acquisition; obtaining; coming to hand

1

clothing; dressing; binding (of a book)

1

one's person; around one's person

1

Imperial General Headquarters (Japan)

1

all members; all hands; everyone; everybody; whole crew

1

honourable defeat; honorable defeat; honourable death; trying but being utterly beaten; being completely rejected when professing one's love

1

dispersal; evacuation; removal; spreading out (troops); deployment

1

to stop (moving); to come to a stop; to stop (doing, working, being supplied); to come to a halt; to alight; to perch on

1

relative; relation; kin

1

to ask after (someone's health); to visit; to attack; to strike; to meet with misfortune

1

sixth day of the month; six days

2

appeal; call for something; request; axiom

1

meeting; assembly; association; conjunction

1

government; administration

1

peace talks; peace negotiations

1

navy

1

news department

1

major general; rear admiral; air commodore

1

mainland decisive battle (land battle envisioned late in World War II)

1

fifth day of the month; five days

2

defeat; lost battle; losing a war

1

imperial edict; decree

1

number of days; period of days; daily interest rate

1

large forest

1

hut; cabin; small theatre (theater); temporary playhouse; one's own house

1

book containing a collection of poems; Psalms (book of the Bible)

1

grief

2