jpdb beta

innermost feelings; heart; motive; nature; disposition; spirit

3

joke; jest; banter

2

to starve; to be famished; to be hungry; to be starved of (e.g. love); to be thirsty for (e.g. knowledge); to be hungry for

1

hokora; small wayside shrine

1

every man knows his own business best; one should go to specialists for the best results; (lit.) for rice cakes, (go to) the rice cake shop

1

to stretch; to extend; to straighten out; to be flattened; to spread (of paint, cream, etc.); to stretch out (e.g. of a hand); to extend

5

great speed; recklessly fast speed

4

inscription; epitaph; (manufacturer's) engraved signature; motto; maxim

4

Norimune

4

demon of the sixth heaven in the realm of desire who tries to prevent people from doing good

11

hattengu; tengu said to live among the 8 mountains of Atago, Hira, Daisen, Ōmine, Kurama, Iizuna, Hiko, and Shiramine

1

first place

1

large tengu; powerful tengu; big braggart; blowhard

5

fat; fatty; grand; magnificent; excellent

8

nth son; lang; official title in ancient China; (arch.) man; (arch.) young man; (arch.) my husband

22

bonze; monk; monk's dwelling; boy; son; I; me

47

amen; hail

3

small tengu; promising young martial arts practitioner

3

bhava (becoming, existence)

1

Mana

1

tens of thousands

1

counter for horsemen

1

next; hypo- (i.e. containing an element with low valence); order; sequence

1

high Buddhist priest

1

Mt. Hiei (in Kyoto)

1

dharmata (dharma nature, the true nature of all manifest phenomena)

1

Satori; folklore monster that can read minds

2

large crowd; mass of people

1

morality; righteousness; meaning; teachings; doctrine; nonconsanguineous relationship (i.e. of in-laws)

3

Hitachi (former province located in the major part of present-day Ibaraki Prefecture)

1

Tsukuba

1

highest rank among priests; mountain ascetic monk; signs that distinguish Buddhist teachings from other faiths; title given to a great physician or painter

1

boy

1

Buzen (former province located in the east of present-day Fukuoka and the north of Ōita prefectures)

1

field; plain; prairie; tundra; moor; wilderness

2

dwelling; living

1

ascetic; pilgrim; devotee

7

irregularity; anomaly

1

legendary; fabled; fabulous

1

world of the tengu; hell of the long-nosed goblins

1

dyeing; printing

1

(Japanese) empress; queen

1

noted priest; celebrated priest

1

liberation from earthly desires and the woes of man; deliverance of one's soul; moksha; mukti; vimukti

1

Buddhist teachings; Buddhism

3

becoming a devout believer; (religious) conversion

4

white heat; incandescence; becoming excited; getting heated (e.g. of a discussion); reaching a climax

8

length (of clothing)

1

barefoot; superior to (a professional, etc. in ability or achievement)

1

unity of rider and horse

1