jpdb beta

rise and fall; ups and downs; welfare; vicissitudes

6

chaste, strong-minded woman; virtuous woman; heroine

2

high-class Edo-period pleasure house (where outside prostitutes were hired to entertained guests)

1

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

1

treasuring; cherishing; prizing; holding dear

2

first torii gate of a shrine

1

to escape

1

end; finish; bounds; limits; delivery date (of a futures contract); finale (of a noh song); end of an act (in jōruri or kabuki)

3

to climb over; to get over; to surmount; to overcome; to surpass; to overtake

4

falling in love; attachment

3

touch; contact

4

to carry off; to run away with; to sweep away; to take entirely for oneself; to monopolize

1

parent and child

3

to be complete; to be all present; to be equal; to be uniform; to gather; to assemble

12

to return a favor (favour); to repay

1

Nakamaro

1

Qin dynasty (of China; 221-207 BCE); Ch'in dynasty

8

distant mountain

2

to plunder; to grab; to snatch

1

to present; to offer; to dedicate

8

Koubou Daishi

2

lapis lazuli; lapis lazuli (color); beryl; mall blue passerine bird (esp. the blue-and-white flycatcher and the Siberian blue robin, but also the red-flanked bluetail); glass

1

poor piece of work; rubbish; one of my works

1

to do up (hair); to dress; to arrange; to tie; to bind; to fasten

3

tea whisk; bamboo whisk for making Japanese tea; hair style where the hair is tied up in a bundle on the back of the head (resembling the shape of a tea whisk)

1

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

2

to carry to extremes; to go to the end of something; to investigate thoroughly; to master

8

rustic; country bumpkin; ruffian; unrefined person; non-politician; non-government person

1

licentiousness

2

rough; crude; sloppy; miscellaneous

9

ah!; oh!; yes; indeed; aah; gah

1

misfortune; ill fate; bad luck; obscurity

3

grudge; complaint; reproach

1

tenacity; persistence; obsession; implacability

5

to build up; to establish; to form; to become (a state); to accomplish; to achieve; to change into

25

several tens

2

following one's master into death by committing ritual suicide (seppuku)

1

one's family; one's clan

3

honour; honor

1

proximity; nearby

1

fight; struggle; conflict

1

to die on the battlefield

1

love problems; problem related to love

2

Buddhahood; Nirvana

1

issue; offspring; paternal blood

3

calm and peaceful period of time

1

Oke

2

mosquito net

2

two Deva kings; guardian gods of Buddhism who stand at the entrance of a Buddhist temple

1

through; throughout; through (the good offices of); by way of

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