jpdb beta

horse dung

2

high class; noble

2

to the end; to the last

3

foreigner; stranger; gentile; goy

2

camphor tree (Cinnamomum camphora); camphorwood; camphor laurel

1

shade of tree; bower

1

proximity; nearness; soon; nearby

4

threat; intimidation; menace

1

pity; compassion

1

to screw; to twist; to distort; to parody; to torture; to wrest

2

to wear; to be dressed in; to have on

1

front row

1

skip it; drop it; I've had enough (e.g. when offered something); that's enough

2

afterwards

2

record; minutes; record (e.g. in sports); results; to record; to document

1

doctor; PhD; exposition; fair; exhibition

4

multi-

4

woman's hairstyle (Edo period) (made popular by a Yoshiwara prostitute called Katsuyama)

1

to be caught; to be arrested; to hold on to; to grasp; to find (e.g. proof); to get (e.g. a taxi)

1

previous day; day before; eve; prior day; preceding day

1

(making a) lesson (of); (setting an) example; warning

1

custom; practice; convention; precedent

1

to go to and from (a place); to go back and forth between; to go to (school, work, etc.); to attend; to circulate (e.g. blood, electricity); to be communicated (e.g. thought)

1

the old town

1

house; dwelling; human habitation

1

hustle and bustle; throng; crowd; congestion; traffic jam

1

in general; generally; mostly; gist; point; main idea

2

usual state of things

1

Oomura Sumitada (1532-1587)

1

opening a port (seaport, airport, etc.); starting operations at a port; opening a port to foreign vessels or trade

1

emigration; immigration; emigrant; immigrant

1

to glitter; to glisten; to sparkle; to twinkle; to glare; to gleam

1

to jostle; to crowd; to haggle

1

fantastic; grotesque; strange-looking; suspicious-looking

1

(arch.) southern barbarians (formerly used by the Chinese to refer to non-ethnic Chinese to the south); (arch.) South-East Asia; (arch.) Western Europe (esp. Spain and Portugal, their South-East Asian colonies, and their goods and people arriving in Japan via the colonies); exotic (esp. Western European or South-East Asian style); (in dance, puppetry, etc.) thrusting the right foot and right arm forward at the same time (or left foot and left arm); nanban; dish prepared using chili peppers and Welsh onions

2

conspicuously; noticeably; remarkably; especially; particularly

2

criminal; lawbreaker; wrongdoer; offender

2

throughout; over a period of ...; over a span of ...

1

to need; to call for; to require

1

to become bloodshot

1

to glare at; to scowl at; to stare intensely at; to examine carefully; to estimate; to guess

1

eleven; 11; jack (playing card); Hodgson's hawk-cuckoo (Cuculus fugax); Horsfield's hawk cuckoo

1

to knit (one's eyebrows)

1

abdomen; belly; womb; one's mind; one's real intentions; courage; nerve

2

splashing (water)

1

palm; open hand; playing on equal terms; lack of handicap

1

to knock down; to topple

1

to be disconnected; to get out of place; to miss the mark; to get it wrong (e.g. guess, expectation); to be removed; to be excluded

2

trial; test

1

quiet; calm; easily; comfortably; distant; far-off

1