jpdb beta

monk; priest; sangha (the Buddhist community)

13

dhyana (profound meditation); Zen (Buddhism)

2

good; goodness; right; virtue

3

certainty; reality; regular; permanent; samadhi (state of intense concentration achieved through meditation)

4

mummy

42

dead body; corpse; cadaver; carcass

4

to dig up; to turn up; to tear up; to rake up (e.g. old scandal); to dig over

7

temple (Buddhist)

3

to deify; to enshrine; to pray; to worship

1

dhyana-samadhi (meditative concentration); ascetic practice atop a sacred mountain (in Shugendō); mountain top

1

state (of mind); mental state; field (of activity); one's lot; circumstance; place

3

several hundreds

1

Edo period (1603-1868)

1

mystery; curiosity; strangeness; ghost; monster; apparition

2

folklore

1

adaptation (of a poem, novel, etc.); recasting; rewriting; modification; rehashing

1

nisei; second-generation Japanese (or Korean, etc.); the second (e.g. Edward II); son

5

to remake; to remold; to remould; to convert; to reconstruct; to adapt

1

liquid

1

to dig out; to pick up

6

Ueda Akinari (1734.7.25-1809.8.8)

5

world view; outlook on the world; Weltanschauung (philosophy); appearance of a world (e.g. in fiction)

4

reflection (light, image, situation, attitude, etc.); reflecting; influence; application (e.g. of an update)

4

cynical

2

growth; development; one's early life; upbringing; personal history

1

worry; care; concern; ennui; boredom

1

to hand over; to surrender

6

classical literature

1

complete works; complete collection; complete series

1

all; whole; entire; complete (set); in total

2

situation; (present) state of affairs; circumstances

7

to help out of (trouble); to extricate

5

to remove; to move out of the way

15

police; police officer; police station

36

report; notification; tip; message (in information and communication theory)

2

insane; crazy; nuts; out of one's mind

3

on the contrary; rather; all the more; instead

6

landscape gardening; landscape architecture

9

trader; dealer; businessperson; fellow trader; people in the same trade

19

digger; excavator; power shovel

10

arrangement; preparations; search (by police)

8

owner

1

to employ; to hire; to charter

3

to be needed; to be wanted

12

loan; lending; favor; favour; creditor; method of lending

2

actual expenses; out-of-pocket expenses; cost price

1

to take out (e.g. garbage); to put out (e.g. dishes on table); to serve (e.g. meal); to get out (e.g. food from cupboard); to submit (e.g. ideas, opinions); to provide for

3

letting (someone) die without helping

2

land owner; leaseholder

1

to be answerable (for); to take the blame

1