jpdb beta

guidebook; guide

1

countryman; provincial; person from the country; provincial person; bumpkin; hick

3

to create (a sensation); to give rise to (controversy)

3

dressing (esp. in kimono); fitting; helping someone get dressed; outer garment (in kabuki)

4

to bloom; to blossom; to become lively (esp. of conversation); to become animated; to experience a golden age

5

place of destination

2

to build; to construct

5

moat; fosse; canal; ditch

2

sea bird

1

artificial; man-made; human work; human skill; artificiality

2

water's surface

5

semicircle; hemicycle; half globe; to go halfway round (e.g. the earth)

1

(turning) round and round; in circles; wrapping around; winding around

2

same feeling; same sentiment; same opinion; sympathy; agreement; concurrence

1

when; how soon; how long until

1

to surpass the rest (e.g. of a large group); to stand out from the crowd; to be the best by far

2

opening gate

1

dazzling; glaring; dazzlingly beautiful

3

antiquity; ancient times

11

Japan; Japanese-style

12

(ancient) Japan; Yamato (former province located in present-day Nara Prefecture)

1

foreign; abroad; overseas

3

difference (of opinion); strange; odd; different

2

posterity; future generations

1

Wei; Cao Wei; kingdom in China during the Three Kingdoms period (220-266); Wei; kingdom in China during the Warring States period (403-225 BCE)

2

on the occasion of; circumstances; juncture

6

lick; bottom card of the draw pile; (arch.) tasting (a nobleman's) medicine to see if it contains poison; (arch.) medicine taster

1

earth; world

1

fault; defect; minor; 5-point card

1

weft; woof (crosswise threads on a loom)

1

end; finish; bounds; limits; delivery date (of a futures contract); finale (of a noh song); end of an act (in jōruri or kabuki)

1

must not; may not

1

the whole country

1

form; shape; figure; visage

1

north and south; north to south; South Korea and North Korea

4

his style; her style; his way (of); her way (of)

1

Emishi; historical term for non-Yamato peoples in northern Japan; Yezo (northern part of Meiji-era Japan, esp. Hokkaido, but also Sakhalin and the Kuril Islands)

3

Arai Hakuseki (1657-1725)

18

consideration; inquiry; enquiry; investigation; study

1

ancient times; distant past; antiquity

2

together; jointly; at the same time; with; both

5

mountains and seas

1

sutra; Buddhist scriptures

1

writing; book

1

eastern direction; the Orient; eastern fighter in a match (e.g. sumo wrestling)

4

east and west; Orient and Occident; East and West; ladies and gentlemen!; your attention, please!

2

place; room; margin; scope

2

to be distant

1

banquet or reception hall

33

detailed; scrupulous; careful; (arch.) diligent; (arch.) honest; (arch.) upright

3