jpdb beta

to bite; to chew; to gnaw; to fumble one's words (esp. during a play, broadcast, etc.); to falter with one's words; to crash against (e.g. of waves); to break onto (shore)

5

to return (something); to restore; to turn over; to turn upside down; to pay back; to retaliate; to respond (with)

6

extra; more; unnecessary; needless; all the more; even more

1

to take (someone) away; to carry off; to abduct; to kidnap

2

most suitable; optimum; optimal; best

2

to tease; to make fun of; to poke fun at; to make a crack about; to chaff; to kid

1

culture; civilization; civilisation; Bunka era (1804.2.11-1818.4.22)

1

wicked person; evil person; scoundrel; bad thing; mischief

2

tide; current; tendency; trend

1

seppuku; harakiri; ritual suicide by disembowelment; seppuku as a death penalty (where the convict is decapitated by a second as they make the motions to disembowel themself; Edo period)

1

first (of all); firstly; probably; most likely; more or less (satisfactory); on the whole

7

government worker; public servant; civil servant

3

clear; pure; noble

1

way to die; means of dying; quality of one's death

1

attainment of Buddhahood during life

1

bell (often a large hanging bell); chime

1

Wakayama (city, prefecture)

1

assistant ...; probationary ...

2

crossing the sea

2

returning alive; surviving; reaching the home plate

2

stone; jewel; precious stone; flint (in a lighter); stone (in go); stone (in the bladder, kidney etc.); calculus

7

to fasten (something or someone) to; to tie (to); to fix; to bind

1

Buddhist priest; monk; son (of others)

1

Emperor Meiji (1852-1912, reigned 1867-1912); Emperor Mutsuhito

1

death (of an emperor); demise

1

person of culture; cultured person

1

following someone's example, and committing suicide

1

is that so?

1

to cause trouble (for someone); to annoy; to bother; to inconvenience

3

to turn up; to roll up (e.g. sleeves); to do over and over again; to do relentlessly; to stage a comeback (against) (in mahjong, horse racing, etc.); to come from behind

1

putting one's affairs in order; ordering one's affairs; tidying up

2

to be found; to be discovered

9

to leave this world; to die

1

face; official stance; public position or attitude (as opposed to private thoughts); ceremony for the erection of the framework of a house

1

postwar period; period after Second World War

3

education; schooling; training; culture; cultivation; education

1

cormorant (Phalacrocoracidae spp.)

1

to begin to say; to start talking; to broach (a matter); to be the first to say; to suggest (doing); to propose

4

(not) always; (not) necessarily; (not) entirely; (not) all

1

way of saying (something); way of putting it; wording; phrasing; language; expression

2

sleeping pill; sleep medication

5

charcoal-burning suicide

1

no, not like that (but like this)

1

to the last; persistency; thoroughness

1

sky; heaven; God; svarga (heaven-like realm visited as a stage of death and rebirth); deva (divine being of Buddhism); top (of a book); sole (of a Japanese sandal)

6

to desire; to wish for; to expect; to see; to command (a view of)

2

Akikawa

1

note left by a dead person; suicide note; testamentary letter; posthumous work

1

hanging (by the neck)

1

ascension (into heaven); the Ascension; death

3