jpdb beta

composition

1

paintbrush

1

from time immemorial; ancient; time-honoured; time-honored

2

wood; lumber; (raw) material; stuff; talent; ability

4

lumber; timber; wood

3

mortar; plaster; stucco

1

mainly; chiefly; primarily; for the most part

1

garden; park

3

modern

1

rebar; (iron) reinforcing bar; reinforcing steel; reinforced concrete

2

concrete

6

mortar

1

careful; elaborate; scrupulous

1

scenery

1

sense of beauty; aesthetic sense

3

disorder; confusion; clutter; mess; muddle; disarray

1

filthy; squalid; dirty; foul; sordid

1

filthy; dirty (looking); drab

1

reduction (in size); shrinking; minimization; trivializing (an issue); making light of; playing down

1

which (of three or more); well; now; c'mon

1

present day; modern times; recent times; early modern period (in Japan, usu. from the Meiji Restoration until the end of World War II)

2

narrow; cramped; tight; fussy; narrow-minded

1

in a manner of speaking; as it were; so to speak; if you like; per se

1

brickwork

1

kneading; gloss; paste (e.g. bean paste, mustard paste); parading of portable shrines and floats at festivals

1

restoration; return; reduction; resolution; deoxidization

1

inorganic matter; mineral matter; cold; inhuman; robotic

1

modern architecture; modernist architecture

1

organism; living body

2

originally; essentially; naturally; in the first place; to begin with

1

incarnation; impersonation; personification; avatar

4

shivering (with cold); trembling (with fear); shuddering

6

looking to and fro

1

gushing out; welling up; springing up

1

civilization; civilisation; culture; Bunmei era (1469.4.28-1487.7.20)

2

development; growth; development (of a situation, story, etc.); advancement; playing around; having an active sex life

1

concentration (of efforts, forces, etc.); gathering together; regimentation; marshalling; mobilization

1

metropolis; large city

1

quiet; peaceful; tranquil

2

Buddhist temple; religious building; church; cathedral

1

inner sanctuary; inner shrine; sanctum sanctorum; holy of holies; place behind main hall of a temple enshrining temple founder, miraculous Buddhas, hidden statues, etc.

1

yew plum pine (Podocarpus macrophyllus)

1

public bathhouse; building with a bath (esp. in a shrine or temple)

1

overhead wires; elevated railway

1

to stretch around (e.g. a fence, dragnet, etc.); to lay out (e.g. a wiring system, network, etc.); to string up (e.g. an antenna, ship's rigging, etc.)

3

clearing out people (from room, etc.); ordering people to leave

2

shout; scream

2

phase (e.g. wave, electricity, moon); topology; register

1

trend; tendency; movement; attitude

4

soul; spirit

1