jpdb beta

style; form; pattern

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first shrine visit of New Year

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dressed up (in fine clothes)

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to grasp at the air

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empty; void; vain; fruitless; lifeless

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Shinto shrine

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to sweep; to brush; to clean; to gather silkworms

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(one's) Sunday best; (one's) best clothes; glad rags

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attaching the polite suffix "-san" to somebody's name

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preceptor or high priest (esp. in Zen or Pure Land Buddhism); second highest priestly rank in Buddhism; monk (esp. the head monk of a temple); master (of one's art, trade, etc.)

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speech; tongue; dialect; brogue; bento; Japanese box lunch; petal

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interference; meddling; butting in

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handling (e.g. knife, reins); control; use; dealing with (e.g. customers); management; disposal (esp. sale of goods)

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flattening

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millstone; mortar

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looking on from afar; being a spectator

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freshly pounded (rice cake)

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springy (texture); doughy; elastic

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kinako; roasted soybean flour; roasted soy flour

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grated daikon; daikon grater

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(husked grains of) rice

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to ingest; to eat; to enter the mouth; to be able to eat

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dropping; unloading; grated vegetables, fruit, etc.; grater; using new tools (or clothes, etc.); new tools (or clothes, etc.)

2

rice cakes; pounded mochi rice

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large number; innumerable; great many; immense; vast; abundant

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corpse; dead person

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snugly; cosily; carefree; easily; freshly made and still warm; imprudently

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red bean paste; red bean jam; filling (e.g. of a manjū); stuffing; padding

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to open one's mouth wide and eat heartily; to gulp down food

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earthen charcoal brazier (for cooking)

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suggestion; proposition; proposal; submission (of a bill); motion; proposal

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friendly; openhearted; sociable; amiable; good-humored; good-humoured

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rock door (to a cave)

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narration

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soup containing rice cakes and vegetables (New Year's dish)

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trespassing; intrusion; to barge into; to burst into; to trespass

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mountain ascetic; practitioner of Shugendō

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tengu; long-nosed goblin; bragging; conceit; braggart

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small ball; globule; bead; small vegetable or piece of fruit

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to peel; to skin; to pare; to hull; to bare (e.g. fangs); to open wide (e.g. eyes)

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standoffishly; primly; pungently (of a smell); acridly; long and pointed (e.g. of a nose); popping (of ears)

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open; spacious; extensive

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ogre; auger

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outbreak of war; starting a war

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to scatter; to sprinkle; to distribute (handbills, etc.); to spread (rumours, etc.); to give the slip; to throw off

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to arrange beforehand; to make a sign to each other; to conspire

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to shake; to waver; to tremble

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backflip; backward somersault

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numbness; going to sleep (of a limb); pins and needles

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flabbily; softly; limply; easily (bend); effortlessly; flexibly

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