jpdb beta

guidance; leading (the way); information; notice; announcement (of one's arrival); invitation

11

friendship; amity

1

to deepen; to heighten; to intensify

2

hotel

37

still; much more; (not) yet; still a long way to go; still a long way off; not there yet

4

to be based on; to take into account; to build upon; to have one's feet firmly planted on; to plant oneself on

1

disguise; masquerade

1

nature; natural; spontaneous; naturally; spontaneously

3

silver; silver colour; (fig.) snow

9

(within a) city; local

1

from now on; after this; in the future; from here; from this point

17

counter for buildings, roofs, tents, etc.

1

politics; government; peace; (arch.) medical treatment; (arch.) cure

1

equality; impartiality; evenness

4

house of parliament (congress, diet, etc.); graduate school; postgraduate school; institution (often medical); institutional building; sub-temple; minor temple building

4

Chinese firebird; Chinese phoenix

6

temple; shrine; hall; company; (arch.) front room

6

spring water; clear (pure) water

15

to turn; to revolve; to visit several places; to function well; to pass a certain time

7

to face; to go towards; to head towards

9

academic year; school year; year in school; grade in school

2

hardly any; almost nonexistent; very little

1

to examine; to look up; to investigate; to check up; to sense; to study

6

to suspect

4

to catch; to capture; to grab; to clutch; to catch hold of (someone); to stop (e.g. a stranger in the street)

1

eaves; narrow aisle surrounding the core of a temple building

1

peace and tranquility; peace and tranquillity

1

pluralizing suffix; or so; rough indicator of direction, location, amount, etc.; nominalizing suffix

1

Fujiwaranoyorimichi

1

father

5

long

1

holiday house; vacation home; villa; prison; jail

1

Yorimichi

1

Buddhist temple

1

to change; to alter; to reform; to correct; to examine; to check

2

following year

1

(act of) building (temple, monument, etc.); erection

1

both wings; both flanks

1

to spread; to extend; to unfold; to open; to scatter about; to spread around

3

roof

1

decoration; ornament; trimmings

1

way of calling

8

Edo period (1603-1868)

1

temple hall containing an enshrined image of Amitabha

3

enshrinement hall (of a buddha); temple; cathedral (esp. Catholic)

1

Gunsho Ruiju (collection of Japanese classics sorted by type; orig. ed. 1819; comp. ed. 1911)

1

omen; sign of luck; origin; history; dependent arising; doctrine that everything has a cause and there is nothing that arises out of nothing

3

Konjaku Monogatarishū (31-volume collection of stories written during the late Heian period); The Tale of Kanjaku

1

land east of China; Japan

1

abbreviation

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