jpdb beta

female; woman; female sex; female lover; girlfriend; mistress

160

face; mask; face guard; (in kendo) striking the head; surface (esp. a geometrical surface); page; aspect

67

chapter one; first chapter

1

soul; spirit; departed soul; ghost

18

Chinese juniper (Juniperus chinensis)

339

if; when; and; with; used for quoting (thoughts, speech, etc.); promoted pawn; indicates a question

827

Toyoki

1

indicates sentence topic; indicates contrast with another option (stated or unstated); adds emphasis

1604

Kyoto (city, prefecture)

17

railway station; train station; staging post on a highway (in pre-modern Japan); counter for railway stations and bus stations

9

indicates possessive; nominalizes verbs and adjectives; substitutes for "ga" in subordinate phrases; (at sentence-end, falling tone) indicates a confident conclusion; (at sentence-end) indicates emotional emphasis; (at sentence-end, rising tone) indicates question

3633

second floor; upstairs

1

at (place, time); in; to (direction, state); toward; for (purpose); because of (reason); for

1679

to be; to exist; to have; to be located; to be equipped with; to happen

228

coffee shop; tearoom; coffee lounge; coffeehouse; cafe

2

box; box (in theatre); booth (in restaurant, etc.); small rectangular building (e.g. telephone box); rectangular field area (batter's box, catcher's box); box (calfskin); central 4x4 area (othello)

3

to be opposite; to face each other; to confront (an issue); to face

1

to sit (down)

10

white chrysanthemum

1

vase for one flower

1

to put; to place; to leave (behind); to establish (an organization, a facility, a position, etc.); to set up; to appoint (someone to a certain position); to hire

26

narrow

2

Decola (brand-name laminate similar to Formica, made of melamine resin)

1

table; desk; counter for tables, desks, etc.; offering table before an altar (sometimes used in tea ceremony); tabletop incense burner

4

above; up; top; summit; surface; before; previous

85

ashtray

3

tobacco; cigarette; cigaret; tobacco plant (Nicotiana tabacum)

14

cigarette end; cigarette butt; tobacco ashes

2

indicates sentence subject (occasionally object); indicates possessive (esp. in literary expressions); but; however; regardless of; whether (or not)

1346

considerably; fairly; quite

4

piled up high; in a heap

1

to become; to get; to result in; to turn out; to consist of; to be composed of; to be completed

208

from the place (where); from the fact that ...; caused by the fact that ...; because

2

to see; to look; to examine; to look over; to look after; to attend to; to experience

225

now; soon; already; yet; further; more

35

Ōita (city, prefecture)

5

in front (of); before (e.g. a building); before; earlier; (the) front; frontal part; forward

60

from (e.g. time, place, numerical quantity); since; from (originator); by; because; since; out of (constituent, part)

303

to talk; to speak; to tell; to explain; to speak (a language)

40

to be crowded; to be packed; to be complex; to go into; to put into; to do intently

9

to have been decided (so) that; to have been arranged (so) that; to be the result (of); to be the outcome; to be the reason (for)

10

two persons; two people; pair; couple

55

friend

3

few days

1

Kansai; region consisting of Osaka, Kobe, Kyoto and surrounding prefectures; Kansai; south-western half of Japan (during the feudal era)

1

to; towards; for

208

to come (spatially or temporally); to approach; to come back; to do ... and come back; to come to be; to become

195

but; however; (and) yet; nevertheless; still; for all that

18

coincidence; chance; by chance; unexpectedly; contingency

3

a short while ago; already

4