jpdb beta

independent; autonomous; voluntary; of one's own initiative

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to be added to; to be appended; to join in (e.g. a group of friends); to participate; to increase (e.g. heat); to gain in (e.g. influence)

2

to worry about; to be worried about; to fret about; to not know what to do; to be at a loss (as to what to do)

1

to hang one's head; to look down; to cast one's eyes downward

2

concrete; definite; specific; material; substantial

1

ability; faculty

11

how; in what way; by what means

8

10,000; ten thousand; myriad; everything; all; (arch.) various

10

to repel; to drive away; to repulse; to reject

3

to take the form of (esp. in ref. to a spirit, fox, raccoon dog, etc.); to assume the shape of; to disguise oneself as; to change radically; to metamorphose; to improve unexpectedly and dramatically (esp. of an actor, artist, rikishi, etc.)

1

to instigate; to tempt; to entice; to incite

1

mystique

1

poet (of tanka poems)

1

painter; artist

1

to win over; to win (someone's) heart and mind

1

to collect; to put (it all) together; to summarize; to aggregate; to bring to a conclusion; to finalize

4

confident; full of confidence; cocky; full of oneself

3

question (e.g. on a test); problem; problem (e.g. societal, political); question; question (i.e. doubt); public discussion

9

beginning; start; outset; at first; at the beginning; initially

1

to pull oneself together; to collect oneself (after a failure); to regain control (of oneself)

2

observation; survey; watching

6

for now; for the time being; for the present; though not quite satisfactorily; after a fashion

1

goods on display; (an) exhibit; exhibition (of goods)

1

along the wall

1

type of household amulet or talisman, issued by a Shinto shrine, hung in the house for protection

1

bell (often globular)

1

charm; amulet

3

Germany

1

mallet; pestle; pounder

1

spurious article; forgery; counterfeit; imitation; sham

18

to sell

3

mass production

1

elegance; grace; article; item; counter for items (of food, etc.); counter for dishes or courses (at a restaurant)

3

house (e.g. of Tokugawa); family

1

to be transmitted (handed down) from generation to generation

1

jokingly; in the form of a joke

1

to take the name of; to call oneself; to pretend; to feign; to purport

3

polite; respectful; reverent

1

wooden; made of wood

1

handle; grip; knob

1

iron (Fe); strong and hard (as iron); railway; railway enthusiast

1

image (in one's mind); impression; (computer) image; depiction (e.g. of a product); rendition

2

to be very far apart from; to be remote; to be quite different from

3

made of iron

1

more than expected

1

anticlimax; let-down; disappointment; loss of interest

2

to be able to conceal

3

any; anything; whatever; I am told; I hear; I understand

4

unexpectedly; unusually; considering all that

1

to drop one's shoulders

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