jpdb beta

blow; shock; strike; batting

1

tragedy; tragic event

1

to mask; to cover; to cloak; to hide; to conceal

1

townscape; street (of stores and houses); (look of) stores and houses on street

1

alley; alleyway; teahouse garden; path through a gate (or through a garden, etc.)

2

evening meal

1

backlight (in photography, etc.); illumination (of the subject) from behind

4

bird; bird meat (esp. chicken meat); fowl; poultry

2

the road home

2

evening; dusk; twilight

2

aloneness; loneliness; solitude

2

loose; slack; gentle (slope, curve); slow (speed); lenient; liberal

3

the same age

1

(flight of) stone steps; stone stairway

2

picture book

1

to come out; to appear; to turn up; to emerge

3

English (language)

1

being unhuman; being removed from humanity; being unworldly

2

demon; devil; evil spirit; monster; goblin; apparition

1

to get slightly dirty (all over)

1

funny; amusing; strange; odd; improper; unsuitable

2

upper arm

1

having no thought for; having no consideration for; disregarding; overlooking; (arch.) being found not guilty (in an Edo-period court); (arch.) acquittal

1

germ; germs; bacteria; something harmful; vermin

1

to assume the air of ...; to behave like ...; to put on airs; to be self-important

1

impertinent; saucy; cheeky; impudent; audacious; cocky

2

mother

3

cat (esp. the domestic cat, Felis catus); shamisen; geisha; wheelbarrow; clay bed-warmer; bottom; submissive partner of a homosexual relationship

7

crackling; cracking; clapping; incessantly (blinking)

1

to pick up; to find; to gather

4

abandoned cat; stray cat

2

national highway

1

(corrugated) cardboard

1

that way; that direction; that (one); that person; there; over there

2

crow (Corvus spp.); raven

2

tightly (hold, squeeze, etc.); firmly; forcefully (e.g. push); hard

2

stirring; slight movement

1

warmth

1

painful; heartrending; trying; oppressive; suffocating; miserable

1

flower bed

1

(dead) body; corpse

1

siblings; brothers and sisters; brothers; siblings-in-law; brothers-in-law; mate

2

parent cat

1

to pull apart; to separate; to have a lead over; to pull ahead of; to outdistance

1

to be duplicated; to be repeated; to overlap; to fall together (of dates, etc.); to repeat (a failed course, school year, etc.); to make a double play

1

before very long; soon; someday; one of these days; sooner or later

1

aunt

37

father; dad; husband; you; he

2

older brother; elder brother; young man; buddy; fella

2

to have an accident; to meet with an accident

1