jpdb beta

to smile

1

to wear (in modern Japanese, from the shoulders down); to put on; to bear (guilt, etc.)

1

for use by men

1

to give an order; to place an order; to have made to order

1

hakama; man's formal divided skirt

3

she; her; girlfriend

1

to be prominent; to be conspicuous

1

middle-aged man; Buddhist priest

1

inheritance; something given or received

1

to be imaginable; to be conceivable

1

surely; certainly; no doubt; indeed

1

to show respect for; to revere; to honour; to honor; to worship; to hold in esteem

1

not holding on; not using the hands; letting go one's hold; lack of reserve (in expressing one's emotions); lack of restraint; openly (saying)

1

Japanese and Chinese poetry; poetry; poems

1

attachment; adhesion; tenacity; fixation; obsession

2

birth; lineage; identity; background; provenance; origin

1

to pass (the night); to spend; to reveal; to divulge; to prove; to verify

1

everyone; everybody; ladies and gentlemen

1

to get down to business; to cut to the chase; to get straight to the point; to move on to the main subject

1

first; firstly; first of all; Introduction; Preface

1

half; 50%; tie; 5 parts; 5%

1

to cross over (e.g. mountain); to go across; to get over (e.g. hardship); to pass time (e.g. a winter); to surpass; to be better than; to move house

1

(not) always; (not) necessarily; (not) entirely; (not) all

1

still more; to say nothing of; not to mention; still less

1

all; everyone; everybody

1

to win fame; to be widely-known; to be well known; to make a name for oneself

2

sour (expression); (lit.) as if having swallowed a bitter bug

1

several people

1

to pick up; to find; to gather

1

complete blockade (seal); baseball shutout

1

evidence; proof

2

nothing but; none other than

1

painful experience

1

originator; ringleader; perpetrator; main culprit; person responsible

1

still; even now; to this day

2

awareness that somebody will be hard to deal with; awareness that one is not good at something; (feeling) not up to doing something

1

last (i.e. immediately preceding); previous; pre- (e.g. premodern); before; before; earlier

1

withering; shrivelling; shrinking; atrophy; contraction

1

to guide; to lead; to show the way; to derive; to deduce

2

to get worse; to deteriorate; to go from bad to worse; to spoil (of food); to go bad; to perish

1

to put one's life on the line; to risk one's life; to put everything one has into it

1

still more; even more; all the more; still less; even less

1

suitable; appropriate; befitting; conjoining; association; samprayukta

1

to satisfy oneself (by doing); to find relief (in doing)

1

serious wound; hard blow

1

skilled person; capable person; doer; performer; giver; bestower

1

a long way off; matter for the future; not going to happen anytime soon

1

to quarry; to cut (timber); to begin to talk; to break the ice; to start a fire (with flint, by rubbing sticks together, etc.); to select and extract (from a media file)

1

to sit; to squat; to assume (a position); to hold steady; to hold still

2

recovery; undoing; recall

2