jpdb beta

guard on sword, polearms, etc.; flange; brim; visor (e.g. of a hat)

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(arch.) southern barbarians (formerly used by the Chinese to refer to non-ethnic Chinese to the south); (arch.) South-East Asia; (arch.) Western Europe (esp. Spain and Portugal, their South-East Asian colonies, and their goods and people arriving in Japan via the colonies); exotic (esp. Western European or South-East Asian style); (in dance, puppetry, etc.) thrusting the right foot and right arm forward at the same time (or left foot and left arm); nanban; dish prepared using chili peppers and Welsh onions

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knife attached to the sheath of a sword

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decorating a metal surface with small dots resembling fish eggs; twill weave; basket weave

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decorating a metal surface with small dots resembling fish eggs; twill weave; basket weave

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coating (esp. lacquering)

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mourning; abstinence; taboo; religious purification; pure; holy

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Bizen (former province located in the southeast of present-day Okayama Prefecture)

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three branch Tokugawa families (Owari, Kii, and Mito); big three; top three

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thoughtless; reckless; seldom; rare; ordinary; usual

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sacrifice sale; selling for a song; dumping

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pointing at

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Japanese chestnut (Castanea crenata)

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shape; appearance; collateral; obverse of an old "zeni" coin

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down-train; train heading toward the ending point of its route; down-slope; downward going; downbound (esp. away from Tokyo); downstream

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wisteria (esp. Japanese wisteria, Wisteria floribunda); wistaria

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family crest

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straw-rope pattern pressed into earthenware; Jōmon period (ca. 14000-1000 BCE)

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sword worn on the hip

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crest of a noble family

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to begin to say; to start talking; to broach (a matter); to be the first to say; to suggest (doing); to propose

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just like that; quite so; I agree; (lit.) that street

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remembrance; recollection; recognition

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please; somehow or other; one way or another

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carefully; thoroughly; fully; deliberately

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seriousness; earnestness; truth; sanctity

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to some degree; up to a point; to some extent

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to fish; to angle; to catch; to lure in; to tempt; to attract

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to take in one's hand; to pick up; to obtain

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this for sure; certainly is

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to stare at; to gaze at; to look hard at; to watch intently; to fix one's eyes on

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to come; to go; to be (somewhere); -ing

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rich person; wealthy person; taking good care of things; keeping things for a long time and taking care of them

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buying; purchasing

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hole; opening; pit; hollow; burrow; den; deficit

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beat; mora

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Suwa

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good gracious; oh my

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fixed rule; usual way; usual method

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information; news; intelligence; information; data contained in characters, signals, code, etc.

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petty underling; small fry

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thoughts; opinion; however much money you wish to give (as alms, a fee at a museum, etc.); fondness (for a significant other, etc.; often used teasingly); love

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appears to be; apparently

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to bless; to show mercy to; to give (money, etc.)

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to make sense; to be consistent

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father

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lending (money); finance; loan; adaptability; versatility; flexibility

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bright golden yellow

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person of high rank or income

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... being the case; (precisely) because ...; as might be expected from ...

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