jpdb beta

Guangdong (China); Kwangtung; Guangzhou (China); Canton

12

half day

2

Katharine; Katherine; Katheryn

36

accompanying (someone); going with; travelling together; the same bank; the said bank

3

chrysanthemum (Chrysanthemum morifolium)

12

to blink (one's eyes) repeatedly

1

steep (mountain); precipitous; hard (life); difficult; troubled

2

error; mistake; slip; bug

3

notebook; memo pad; certificate; identification card

1

timeless masterpiece; immortal work

2

hey; yo; hi; yessir; understood

1

writing; composition; essay; sentence

1

poet

2

Chinese banyan (Ficus microcarpa); Malayan banyan; Indian laurel; curtain fig

1

winter sun; winter sunshine; day on which the temperature drops below 0°C; below-freezing day

1

hookah; waterpipe

1

scene; view; prospect; outlook

1

poem

3

(Ogura) Hyakunin Isshu; classical Japanese anthology of one hundred Japanese waka by one hundred poets; hyakunin isshu karuta; hyakunin isshu poetry cards; deck of 200 cards, the 100 waka of the Hyakunin Isshu split between them, to be matched together during the game

2

(young) girl; maiden; young lady

2

uncle

4

tailor; dressmaker

1

to be separated by death

1

frail; having a weak constitution; being in poor health

1

primary school; elementary school; grade school

3

belt (worn around the waist); (machine) belt; belt; zone

1

to compose a poem

1

bold; daring; audacious

1

Frederick; Frederic; Frederik; Flederique; Fredelic

1

great king

1

deep emotion; impression; inspiration

3

to manage; to settle; to dispose of; to deal with; to arrange

1

in person; personally; directly

1

trace; tracks; site; remains; scar

1

to bend many times; to turn and twist; to zigzag

1

greengrocer; fruit and vegetable shop; jack of all trades

1

haberdashery; sundries store

1

pharmacy; drugstore; chemist's (shop); pharmacist; druggist; chemist

1

Japantown (esp. historical Japantowns in Southeast Asia founded in the 16th-17th centuries)

3

foot-binding

2

dark brown; colour of tanned skin

1

pure; true; genuine; unmixed

2

Tokugawa shogunate (1603-1867); Edo shogunate

2

deportation; expulsion from the country

1

Manila (Philippines)

8

Takayama Ukon

1

on the occasion of; at the time of

2

to become overgrown; to grow thick; to spread; to run rampant; to thrive

1

merit; success; meritorious deed; achievement; accumulated experience

1

wokou; wakō; Japanese pirates who raided the Chinese and Korean coastlines between the 13th and 16th centuries

1