jpdb beta

to track down; to locate; to find out; to smoke out; to ferret out; to chase up

2

glance; look; glimpse; complete view; bird's-eye view

1

monkey (esp. the Japanese macaque, Macaca fuscata); ape; sly person; idiot; hick; sliding wooden bolt (for holding a door or window shut); clasp used to control the height of a pot-hook

5

to condemn; to blame; to urge; to press; to torture; to torment

2

dizziness; giddiness; vertigo

1

writing; composition; essay; sentence

1

will not do; do not; does not

3

alone; unaided; away from home

1

explanation; excuse; clarification; vindication; apology

4

arms; armament

1

to forbid; to suppress

2

to accuse someone falsely; to make a false charge

2

give up; relinquish; serve up; let loose

4

entering the priesthood; priest; monk; bonze

3

close (e.g. of business); leaving (e.g. school); being outdone; compare unfavourably (with); closing price (stockmarket); sink mark (casting, moulding)

2

lower part; foot; lower direction; left part of the stage (audience's or camera's POV); stage right (actor's POV)

2

forced relocation of a daimyo to a different domain by the Edo shogunate

7

roofed mud wall around a villa or temple

9

Lake Biwa

1

administration; governance; the authorities; authority

2

abandoned castle

1

valley

7

complete destruction; demolition

3

Wu; region in China, south of the lower Yangtze; Wu; Southern Wu; Wu; Eastern Wu

1

lake (in place names)

1

(arch.) lowly person; (arch.) lowliness; I

4

Sawayama

5

Shizugatake

1

(Edo-period) chief minister

3

to catch sight of; to come into view; to happen to see

1

field of vision; visibility; view; visual field; (one's) ken

2

gilded folding fan

2

bottle gourd; ensign bearing a cluster of gourds (used by Toyotomi Hideyoshi)

2

reversal; return; return gift; return favour (favor); barb (on a fishing hook); mixture of soy sauce, sugar and mirin

2

ultrahigh speed; ultrafast

1

true character; true form; true colors (colours); consciousness; one's senses

3

fixed date; settlement date

1

to moan; to groan

2

Katou Kiyomasa (1562-1611)

24

correct; proper; formal; invertible (matrix); holomorphic

7

seven (long cylindrical things)

1

to spread; to propagate; to popularize; to broaden; to extend; to widen

3

Tanaka Yoshimasa

3

to pull out; to take out; to lead out (e.g. a horse from a stable); to summon (e.g. to court); to withdraw (money); to draw

1

trusting too much; overestimating ability

1

small territory; assistant director of a district (ritsuryo system)

1

for two people's eyes to meet; catching someone's eye; making eye contact; meeting a person's gaze

1

to make fun of; to look down on; to make light of

2

cultivation; refinement; culture; education

2

Genji and Heike clans; two opposing sides

1