jpdb beta

ascent; climbing; ascending (path); upbound (esp. toward Tokyo)

1

work; operation; manufacturing; fatigue duty

2

banquet; dinner party

4

custom; convention; tradition; mores; conventional practice

1

tacking (in needlework); basting; planting (esp. rice seedlings); discipline; training

5

to be used to; to get accustomed to; to train; to discipline; to tack (in needlework); to baste

3

tacking (in needlework); basting; planting (esp. rice seedlings); discipline; training

1

holiday; day off

1

to train; to discipline; to teach manners

1

line

1

act; deed; conduct

3

space; interval; space character; whitespace

1

during; for the duration of

2

to impose (a tax, fine, etc.); to levy; to assign (a task, duty, etc.); to give; to set

1

morning and evening

3

control; management (e.g. of a business)

2

weeding

1

to lay hands on; to touch; to care for; to look after; to make off with; to steal

2

(the) whole; as a whole; in general; at large

1

manufacturing; craftsmanship; making New-Year's decorations; (arch.) preparing fields; (arch.) farming

1

foundation; root; basis; root and trunk

2

for no particular reason; for some reason or other; somehow or other

1

everyday; daily; ordinary; usual; routine; regular

2

working earnestly; sincerity; diligence; effort; pains

1

Onbashira Festival; log-dragging festival held once every six years in Suwa, Nagano

50

Suwa Grand Shrine

15

gloomy (e.g. mood); depressing; irritating; troublesome; heavy (weather); cloudy

1

rainy season (in Japan usu. from early June to mid-July); rain during the rainy season

4

year of the Monkey

4

to pull; to tug; to draw (attention, sympathy, etc.); to attract (e.g. interest); to draw back (e.g. one's hand); to draw in (one's chin, stomach, etc.); to draw (a card, mahjong tile, etc.)

12

stage; step; level; rank; order; stairs

2

Suwako

3

south-east

2

Suwa (city)

2

Suwataishakamishahonguu

1

Suwamachi

1

Suwa

7

10,000; ten thousand

3

periodic; regular; routine

2

to rebuild; to reconstruct

4

year in which an imperial memorial ceremony is held (the 3rd, 5th, 10th 20th, 50th and 100th years after death and every 100 years thereafter)

4

building (a temple, palace, etc.); construction; erection

5

transfer ceremony (wherein a shrine's sacred object is moved from one building to another)

3

four corners; four ordinal directions

3

big tree

1

to build; to construct

15

(shrine) repository or treasure house; (shrine) sanctuary

8

rebuilding; reconstruction; re-erection

3

main shrine

1

Kamiyashiro

5