jpdb beta

upper body

1

youth; young man

2

don't you think?; indicates question

1

(suffer) deterioration; growing worse; aggravation; degeneration; corruption

1

to respond; to answer; to meet (e.g. demands, expectations); to affect; to take a toll; to strike home

1

chimes; toll of a bell

2

wearing a sword

2

hesitation; indecision; vacillation

2

street corner; road turn; bend in the road; turning point; watershed

1

square sleeves

2

medicine box

1

Toyama (city, prefecture)

1

police headquarters; main office; this office

1

spring; fountain

1

urgent report; urgent message

2

interior of a village

1

event; affair; incident; case; plot; trouble

1

government treasurer

1

one's wife; wife (of somebody below the speaker in rank)

2

reason; significance; cause; piece of information that one has heard; I hear that ...; it is said that ...

2

Tokyo

2

direction; district; area; field (e.g. of study); sphere; quarter

1

central government office; head office; this office

1

plait; braid

1

missing (of a person); lost; unaccounted for; whereabouts unknown

1

possibly; maybe; perhaps

1

to crowd (a house); to throng to (a door)

1

be; is

2

official post; regular post; principal post (as opposed to secondary post); I (of someone in government or the civil service)

2

recklessness; daredevilry; rashness; (arch.) long-lasting

1

aid; assistance; help; cheering; rooting (for); support

1

vague; obscure; vast; boundless

2

to be of no importance

1

three times

1

dressing in kimono without hakama (for a man); dressing casually

5

splash pattern (e.g. on a kimono); dye pattern; kasuri

1

unlined kimono; one kimono; a single kimono

1

stand-up collar

1

Western-style clothes (cf. traditional Japanese clothes)

7

calm; serenity; tranquillity; tranquility

1

to dress (oneself in); to attire oneself in; to adorn; to pretend; to feign; to affect

1

clear; obvious; evident; bright; light

1

(walking) stick; cane; wand

2

wakizashi; short sword worn by samurai

1

to crush to death; to stifle to death; to squeeze to death; to stifle (a laugh, etc.); to muffle (one's breathing); to subdue (one's voice)

1

low voice; whisper

1

between (e.g. two people); face to face; hindrance; impediment; arrhythmic section of recitative in noh music; playing with only 2 players; prefix used for stress or emphasis

1

to call out to; to hail; to address; to appeal

1

(lower) jaw; chatterbox

1

being startled, surprised or afraid; panic; trepidation

1