jpdb beta

open-air fire (e.g. for garden refuse); bonfire; open fire (e.g. in a kitchen)

3

to eat; to drink

1

in the fire; in the flames; (arch.) burning (something)

1

to be impressed; to greatly admire

1

charred; burnt black; scorched black

1

to jump up and down; to hop

1

self-abasement; humility; self-depreciation

2

to respond; to satisfy; to accept; to comply with; to apply for

3

to be commonly referred to as; as people say; as the saying is; they say

1

mediation; agency; agent; mediator; middleman; go-between

1

cross-cultural; comparative culture

1

division; section; demarcation; partition; segmentation; subdivision

1

grant; allowance; endowment; bestowal; assignment; conferment

1

Western Europe; the West; the Occident; Europe

2

tattling; telling on (someone)

1

Pieter Brueghel

1

gallows

1

to represent; to signify; to reveal; to show; to express; to make widely known

4

traditional; conventional

3

icon; simple ink drawing (of a buddha, mandala, etc.)

1

to take down in notes (meeting minutes, etc.); to apply (concepts, ideas, etc. to specific processes or methods); to drop into something (e.g. a bag); to entice; to lure

3

waka; classic Japanese poem, esp. a tanka, often 31 morae

3

frost; white hair; grey hair; gray hair

6

to run away (e.g. from work); to escape; to hide; to end a round with less than 20 points

1

(Ogura) Hyakunin Isshu; classical Japanese anthology of one hundred Japanese waka by one hundred poets; hyakunin isshu karuta; hyakunin isshu poetry cards

1

to pattern after; to liken to; to imitate

1

softening; softening (of attitude); mollification; weakening (of the market); blanching (e.g. of vegetables; by depriving of light)

1

to stay up all night; to sit up all night; to do something all night

1

bird catcher; bird handler (oft. chicken); bird catching; bird handling (oft. chicken)

1

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

1

eyelid

1

to read and understand; to take in; to sense from external cues; to read (someone's) mind; to read (calibration, tape, etc.); to scan (bar code)

2

(a) principle; (a) reason; (a) point; some truth

1

drowsily; nodding off

1

a day or two

1

sleeping outdoors; sleeping out in the open air; camping

3

in the mountains; among the mountains

1

transfer; redirection; transmission; forwarding (telephone call, e-mail, etc.)

1

to oversleep

1

to ride past; to miss one's stop (train, bus, etc.)

1

machine gun

1

all manner of (verbal) abuse; all kinds of names; abusive language; torrent of abuse; stream of insults

1

ordinary train; slow train

1

to not take seriously; to take lightly

2

as (one) walks on, and on

1

hurrying (to somewhere); rushing; hastening; express (train)

1

section (of track, etc.); segment; dimension; interval

1

prefecture (Japan); county (China, Taiwan, Norway, etc.); department (France); province (Italy, Spain, etc.)

2

(being) out of range (e.g. mobile network, radar, missiles); (being) out of contention; (being) beyond influence

1

unexplored region; secluded region; place off the beaten track

2