jpdb beta

the five grains (wheat, rice, beans, millet (awa and kibi))

1

ominous; sinister; unlucky; inauspicious

11

harvest; crop; ingathering; fruits (of one's labors); gain; result

2

important; significant; precious; valuable; careful

3

fourteenth day of the month; fourteen days

1

vice; bad manners; evil customs; storm; raging winds

1

legume (esp. edible legumes or their seeds, e.g. beans, peas, pulses); bean; soya bean (Glycine max); soybean; female genitalia (esp. the clitoris); kidney; small

1

crop; yield; harvest; catch; take

1

rainbow

1

grain; cereal; corn

1

price; value; cost

1

lunar eclipse

1

to starve; to be famished; to be hungry; to be starved of (e.g. love); to be thirsty for (e.g. knowledge); to be hungry for

2

first day of summer (approx. May 6)

2

height; stature; length (esp. of clothing); all (one has); everything; magnificence (of a waka poem, etc.)

8

marker; signpost; guide pole; levelling pole (surveying)

1

mid-air; mid-heaven; zenith

1

epidemic; plague; pestilence

2

drought; long spell (period) of dry weather

3

red; crimson; red-containing colour (e.g. brown, pink, orange); Red (i.e. communist); red light (traffic); red ink (i.e. in finance or proof-reading); (in) the red

8

3 Japanese feet; waistband; belt; cloth girdle

1

this year

5

summer

4

cold; coldness; chilliness

1

gentle breeze; soft wind; breath of air; zephyr

1

northwest

1

bad harvest; poor crop

1

frost; white hair; grey hair; gray hair

1

wheat; barley; oat (oats)

1

harvest

1

northeast

1

northeast

1

spring; fountain

2

to gush out

1

to occupy; to hold; to command; to account for

2

the future; future prospects

1

record; minutes; record (e.g. in sports); results; to record; to document

25

newspaper

6

entry (in a form, register, diary, etc.); filling in; filling out

1

to stop writing; to put down one's pen; to close (a letter)

1

agricultural production

1

recent past; recent times; early modern period (from the Azuchi-Momoyama period to the end of the Edo period)

1

criminal, administrative and civil codes (forming the basis of ancient East Asian law; orig. Chinese); legal codes of the Nara and Heian eras based on Chinese models

1

to consider as; to regard (as equivalent); to deem (as); to equate

2

being frank; going so far as to say

1

in; at; on; as for; regarding; with regards to

6

technique

2

exclusive possession; sole ownership; monopoly

1

the four seasons

1

business; task; use; purpose; for the use of ...; used for ...

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