jpdb beta

assumption (of office); taking up (a post); inauguration; installation

1

first half

1

flexible; lithe; soft; pliable

1

imperial court

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event; function

1

great purification; purification rite performed twice a year, before daijōsai and after major disasters

1

schedule; program; programme; agenda

3

aid; help; assistance; assistant; counselor; counsellor

1

Minister of the Imperial Household

11

grand chamberlain

4

disappearance; running away; going missing; absconding

1

appearing all together

2

to compete; to contest; to quarrel; to argue; to deny (e.g. evidence)

1

path; route; itinerary

1

intuition; instinct; insight; hunch; immediacy

1

lower part; foot; lower direction; left part of the stage (audience's or camera's POV); stage right (actor's POV)

1

billow; surge; large wave

1

to amass; to accumulate; to store; to leave unpaid

1

to roll up; to hoist; to take away; to rip off (e.g. money from someone); to blow up (dust)

2

exit (from a stage); exeunt; leaving; exit

1

indicates concession or compromise; indicates permission

1

feelings; emotion; compassion; sympathy; passion; affection

4

real power

4

compatibility; coexistence; standing together

1

clear as day; perfectly obvious; plain as daylight

1

to take care of; to bring up under one's personal care; to kill with one's own hands; to do personally; to handle (e.g. a job); to request that someone deal with (something)

2

brute; beast; monster; inhuman person; ungrateful person

1

people

3

coldhearted; hardhearted

1

the matter you have been talking about

3

without delay; smoothly; without a hitch

1

dissenting opinion; opposite viewpoint; contraview

1

bureaucrat; government official; bureaucracy

2

efficiency

1

to press forward; to forge ahead; to push on

2

both persons

1

resting one's chin in one's hands; brace (in construction); angle brace

2

imperfect; incomplete; faulty; defective

2

to backfire; to have a harmful result

1

elevation; rise; improvement; advancement; progress

1

fragment; scrap; piece; shred

1

good fortune (esp. omikuji fortune-telling result); good luck; auspiciousness; unspecified day of the month (used to obscure the date a letter, invitation, etc. was written)

1

bad luck; bad fortune; evil; wickedness

1

beginning of the year; early in the New Year

1

sliding door

1

to get (much) colder; to deepen (cold); to feel cold (of the body); to be chilled to the bones; to worsen (of relations, economic conditions, etc.)

1

snow scene; snowscape; snowy landscape

1

to pass (a car); to overtake; to surpass; to outstrip; to outdistance

1

New Year's Day; New Year's morning; morning of New Year's Day

1

first shrine visit of New Year

7