jpdb beta

technique; art; skill; move

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manners; etiquette; propriety; manner of production (esp. of prose, poetry, etc.); way of making

1

to correct; to rectify; to reform; to straighten (one's posture, collar, etc.); to adjust

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manners; courtesy; etiquette

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patina; antique look; elegant simplicity; well-trained voice

2

little less than; slightly fewer than; just under; weakness; the weak

2

to be renewed; to change; to be improved; to be reformed; to stand on ceremony; to be formal

4

flute mouthpiece; poetic style

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tie up; bind; sum; total amount; judo choking (strangling) techniques; last meal eaten when going restaurant hopping; completion

1

investigation; inspection; examination; tune; note; melody

1

art; craft; accomplishment; artistic skill; technique; performance

2

dignity; majesty; solemnity; gravity

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inexperienced; incompetent; inept; incapable; careless

2

rust

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silently; in silence

6

bass range (in Japanese music); six even-numbered notes of the ancient chromatic scale; Japanese seven-tone gagaku scale similar to Mixolydian mode (corresp. to: re, mi, fa, so, la, ti, do)

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joint; knuckle; tune; melody; knot (in wood); node in a bamboo stem

2

child; small person; dwarf; midget; narrow-minded person; mean person

1

flattery; cajolery; flirtation

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small stream; brooklet; murmuring (as of a stream)

1

oneself; myself

2

thought; imagination; mind; desire; wish; love

3

soul; spirit

3

plate; dish; serving; helping; kanji radical 108 (at the bottom)

4

to break; to be smashed; to split; to crack; to be divided (opinion, vote, etc.); to split (e.g. of a party); to come to light

2

echo; reverberation; sound (esp. the distinctive sound of an object or activity, e.g. rain, gun, gallop, drum); noise; quality of a sound (e.g. a fine phrase, clear voice, resonant bell); feeling of a sound

1

to get along; to add (one's own concordant voice, etc.)

1

uncertainty; transiency; impermanence; mutability

1

(sound of) wind blowing through pine trees; (sound of) steam whistling in a kettle (at a tea ceremony); matsukaze; sugar-glazed cookie sprinkled with sesame or poppy seeds

1

report to the emperor

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eye; eyeball; (arch.) pupil and (dark) iris of the eye; (arch.) insight; (arch.) perceptivity; (arch.) look

2

to listen to in an ecstasy

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third rank (in the Japanese court system); Trinity; the Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit

1

extensive knowledge; erudition

1

Lord; Sir; state minister (under the ritsuryo system); (arch.) you (in reference to someone of lower status)

1

the head; the foremost; beginning; the very front

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Vermilion Bird (god said to rule over the southern heavens); seven mansions (Chinese constellations) of the southern heavens

1

anguish

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two-storied gate; tower gate

1

tuning

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to address (someone); to accost a person; to talk (to someone); to begin to talk; to start a conversation

2

to exchange; to swap; to barter; to replace; to substitute

1

all night

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interest; entertainment; pleasure; implicit comparison (style of the Shi Jing)

1

to take advantage of; to follow blindly; to multiply

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incarnation; impersonation; personification; avatar

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tradition; legend; folklore

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music

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(female) beauty; beautiful woman

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brittle; fragile; weak; tender-hearted; sentimental; easily moved

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