jpdb beta

maid; female servant; hostess (in a ryokan); waitress (in a traditional restaurant); (arch.) court lady

2

integrity; moral courage; rigidity

1

plan; protocol; manifest; program

2

new technology

1

intelligence operative; spy

4

spy; agent provocateur; covert operative; maker; builder; constructor

3

secret information; intelligence

3

counterintelligence; counterespionage

1

subversive activities

1

various countries; various regions; various provinces

1

to be a good match for; to stand a chance against; to be able to compete with; to hold one's own

1

mysticism

1

sphere of action; scope of activity; range of work

1

outside the country; abroad

3

one's troops

1

if anything; if pushed I'd say; if I had to say

1

affinity

1

great admiration; deep respect

1

good and evil; purity and impurity; voiced and unvoiced consonants

1

to match (rhythm, speed, etc.); to join together; to unite; to face; to be opposite (someone); to compare; to check with

1

to be crowded (with); to be packed; to be piled up (of work); to be busy (with)

1

first of all; in the first place; to begin with; for starters

1

to be ill; to suffer from; to worry about; to be concerned about; to have trouble doing ...; to be unable to ...

1

nationally protected chicken breed; free-range local traditional pedigree chicken; chicken meat from same; locally raised chicken

1

grey moustache; white beard

1

important matter; requirement; requisite; necessary condition

3

to profit; to get; to have (bear, beget) a child; to have a stroke of luck

2

feeling of affinity; friendship

1

deliberate hindrance; obstruction

1

son

1

fruit grown near the tip of the vine (hence stunted and unripe); weak-looking fellow; pale-faced man; pasty-faced man

1

weasel (esp. the Japanese weasel, Mustela itatsi); mustelid (any other member of the weasel family, incl. badgers, martens, minks, ferrets, otters, polecats, stoats, skunks, etc.)

2

dressing in kimono without hakama (for a man); dressing casually

1

evening sun; setting sun

1

opposite bank; farther shore

1

firefight; gun battle; shoot-out

1

originator; founder

1

child prodigy; wonder child

1

neon (Ne)

2

dusk; nightfall; twilight

2

Keichō era (1596.10.27-1615.7.13)

1

aorta; (fig.) important traffic route

1

the Five Highways (radiating from Edo)

1

starting point; origin

1

ukiyo-e; ukiyoe; Edo-period woodblock print

1

famous place; name of a part (of an instrument, etc.); name and address

1

to remake; to remold; to remould; to convert; to reconstruct; to adapt

2

bipartite; in two parts; double

1

arch; home run

1

giraffe (Giraffa camelopardalis); qilin (Chinese unicorn)

3