jpdb beta

to sit down

2

to pick up; to adopt (e.g. a proposal); to accept; to take away; to confiscate; to deliver (a baby)

3

highway (esp. one existing from the Edo period); main road; highway (e.g. to success); path (to becoming ...); subdistrict (in China)

1

essay

4

to collect; to assemble; to gather

4

special; particular; extraordinary; exceptional; especial

2

to squat; to crouch down (completely, generally with face looking through knees)

1

same village; same town; same province

1

affinity; feeling of closeness (with someone); feeling of kinship

1

debut; doing something for the first time; starting anew; starting afresh

8

Sankei newspaper

3

head office; main office; main shrine; this company; this shrine

1

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

2

vice-chief; vice-director; assistant director; deputy manager

1

postbox; mailbox; post; position; post (e.g. goalpost); post- (e.g. post-Cold War)

1

concerning; regarding; per (e.g. 100 yen per person); for every

1

thirty; 30

16

only; merely; but; no more than

2

to finish writing; to complete; to write down (e.g. a list); to write out

1

Persia

1

magic; sorcery; wizardry; magic (illusion); conjuring

1

teacher; master; religious leader; specialist; (arch.) five-battalion brigade comprising 2500 men (Zhou-dynasty Chinese army)

1

offering a prize; prize competition; prize; reward

1

being selected (for a prize, exhibition, etc.); being accepted; winning

1

to crowd out; to push out; to start together; to set out en masse; to highlight; to draw attention to

1

temple (side of head)

2

to branch; to fork; to separate; to split; to disperse; to scatter

1

to disappear; to vanish; to go out (of a fire, light, etc.); to die; to fade (of a feeling, impression, etc.); to vanish (e.g. of hope); to go away (e.g. of a smell, itchiness, sleepiness)

3

unusual event; strange occurrence; strange phenomenon; something abnormal; change (for the worse); accident

1

minute (unit of time); fun (one tenth of a monme, 5.787 grains)

2

Yamada Fuutarou (1922.1-)

1

ninja arts

1

inside out; upside down; flip side; opposite; contrary

1

to write down; to note; to jot down; to remember

1

kudzu (Pueraria montana); Japanese arrowroot; Chinese moonseed (Sinomenium acutum)

1

remembrance; recollection; recognition

4

to pick up; to pick out

1

fragment; scrap; cut end; cut-off piece; chip; odds and ends

1

accent (of one's speech); dialect; provincialism; corrupted form (e.g. of word); mispronunciation

1

telephone book; telephone directory

1

manuscript; copy; draft; notes; contribution

1

reuse; recycling

1

to laugh scornfully

2

counter for the ichi-ni-san counting system (usu. directly preceding the item being counted); noun read using its on-yomi; counter for articles; indicates possessive (esp. in place names)

1

peak; mountain

1

devil; evil spirit; genie

1

land of the gods; Japan; China

1

style of tie-dyeing used during the Nara era

1

castle (in place names); castle; fortress

1

disorder; chaos; confusion; mayhem

1