jpdb beta

omen

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enshrinement

1

to be within others' sight; to be visible; to be conspicuous; to attract public attention; to come under observation

1

ecdysis; shedding (of skin); sloughing; freeing oneself; breaking with (convention, etc.)

1

vague recollection; faint memory

1

grave

4

naginata; polearm with a curved single-edged blade (similar to a glaive); naginata; martial art of wielding the naginata

1

spirit of a dead person; ghost; departed soul

7

enticement; inducement; attraction

4

English (language)

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without looking aside; looking neither right nor left; wholeheartedly; single-mindedly

1

worthy of; worth doing; worth having

1

throughout; all through; right through

1

manner of death

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sailing; marching; going out; dispatch

1

person who has died at his post (in the performance of his duties)

1

humanity; empathy; kindness; human nature; common sense; customs and manners

1

body odor; body odour; personal odor; personal odour; characteristic (of someone)

1

misfortune; ill fate; bad luck; obscurity

1

anti-aircraft; antiaircraft

1

firefly (Luciola cruciata); lightning bug; glowworm

1

poetic

2

death penalty; capital punishment

1

(death from) starvation; starving to death

1

hunger; starvation

5

the mere shadow of one's former self; the ruin of what one once was

1

wistful; desirous of; hungry-looking; greedy-looking

1

loitering; roaming; sauntering; wandering about; prowling

1

misdeed; wrongdoing; wickedness

1

the dead; ghost; person who is obsessed (with money, power, etc.); person with a blind lust (for)

1

Buddhism

1

brat; kid; urchin; preta; hungry ghost

1

virtue; benevolence; profit; benefit

1

to offer; to present; to serve (food and drink); to offer (to the gods); to set up (before an altar)

1

service for the benefit of suffering spirits

1

to pray for the repose of somebody's soul; to pray for the souls of the departed

2

pity; sorrow; pitiable; pitiful; alack; alas

1

himself; yourself; herself

1

standing upright; standing bolt upright; rearing

1

finishing blow; coup de grâce

1

annual function; annual event

1

ceremonial bonfire (seeing off the spirits on the final night of O-Bon)

1

welcoming fire for returning spirits (on the first night of the Bon festival)

1

bonfire often in temple grounds, usu. of charms, talismans, New Year decorations, etc.; ritual burning of money, cedar sticks, or other objects as an offering

1

homa; Buddhist rite of burning wooden sticks to ask a deity for blessings

1

Hinduism

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Buddhist temple; religious building; church; cathedral

1

priest; monk; bonze

1

Buddhist (household) altar

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a Buddha; deceased person

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