jpdb beta

taste (in fashion, music, etc.); sense (e.g. of humour); flair

1

valuation; appraisal; evaluation; appreciation; recognition; acknowledgement

1

call; summons; call; invocation; usher who calls the names of wrestlers, sweeps the ring, etc.; telephone number at which a person without a telephone can be reached; (arch.) box-shaped area containing clean water for rinsing oneself (in an Edo-period bathhouse)

2

familiar; well-known; regular (e.g. customer); old acquaintance; old friend; (a) regular

1

fashion show

2

unripe; green; immature; immature; inexperienced; unskilled

1

to be stricken (e.g. with grief); to be battered (e.g. by disasters)

1

a short while ago; a moment ago; just now; some time ago

3

pupil; disciple; follower

3

unsightly; ungraceful; clumsy; awkward; unpresentable; unshapely

1

defeat; loss; reverse; setback

3

to eat; to drink; to smoke; to suffer (e.g. defeat); to receive a blow

1

to be generally accepted; to be acknowledged by oneself and others

1

just one person; only one

2

fifty; 50

3

to slaughter; to massacre; to butcher; to defeat soundly; to overpower; to vanquish

1

camp (supporters of a doctrine, party, etc.); faction (of a party); military camp; encampment; cantonment

3

number; number plate; license plate

2

mental; spiritual; emotional

1

prop; stay; support; brace; fulcrum

1

to suffer an embarrassing defeat

2

to win; to gain victory

4

to think of; to hit upon; to come into one's mind; to remember; to recall

2

by any chance; (should) it happen (that); by some chance

4

visiting another school (e.g. of kendo) and defeating each member in a fight

1

joke; jest; funny story

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)

3

preparation; arrangements; getting ready; provision; setup; reserving

3

you

4

warrior (esp. of military retainers of daimyos in the Edo period); samurai; person with a strong backbone; person that does incredible things; person of considerable talent

2

Western music; European music

6

to hear; to listen (e.g. to music); to ask; to enquire; to hear about; to hear of; to follow (advice, order, etc.)

9

sashimi (raw sliced fish, shellfish or crustaceans)

1

carpaccio

1

is not ... either; is (neither ...) nor ...; nor is it ...; does not ... either; (neither ...) nor ...; does not even ...

6

fighting with real swords; game played in real earnest

1

touché; you've got me there

1

play; playing; game; play and dance (at a kindergarten or elementary school)

1

kind; sort; type; equal; match; peer

2

physical strength

1

to be defeated; to be beaten; to be unsuccessful; to lose

4

student council

2

vice president (of a club, organization, etc.)

2

to class (one thing with another); to rank (with); to respect (two things) the same; to see as comparable; to hold in equally high esteem

1

belonging to (a group, organization, etc.); affiliation (with); being attached to; being under the control of; serving (in the military, congress, etc.)

2

Monday

1

to soar; to fly

1

(large) building; public building; hall

1

short-term

2

becoming a pupil (of); becoming a disciple; introduction (to); primer; entering through a gate

2