jpdb beta

thin-culmed dwarf bamboo (growing in clusters); Japanese transverse bamboo flute (high-pitched; usu. with seven holes); sliver (strand of loose fibers)

3

trace; tracks; site; remains; scar

2

Koumyoukougou

1

rustic bathhouse (esp. at onsen)

1

to build; to construct

4

dirt; filth; grime

4

hairy

1

karuna (compassion)

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(dispensation of) free medicine

2

this area; around here

1

dear me!; good gracious!; well; let me see; now

2

main temple gate; temple

4

winter

4

to cross over (e.g. mountain); to go across; to get over (e.g. hardship); to pass time (e.g. a winter); to surpass; to be better than; to move house

2

all year round

1

to blacken; to darken

1

young (usu. of a woman); blooming; in the prime of youth; with a charm appropriate to one's age

1

dice; die; baton (of command)

1

female; smaller (of the two); weaker; (arch.) woman; (arch.) wife

1

ridge (in field); row of raised earth when planting crops; rib (cloth, mountains, sea); cord (e.g. corduroy)

1

soft; tender; gentle; mild; informal; light

3

spring day; spring sunlight

4

curve

1

evening; dusk

2

roof

2

(on a) closer look; closer scrutiny; second look

1

Latin-Japanese (e.g. dictionary)

1

first letter; first letters; initial

1

Nichiren school of Buddhism

2

Buddhist center for study and meditation; monastery; temple; Danrin style of haikai poetry (playful and oriented to the common person); Danrin school (of haikai poetry)

2

that is to say; so that means

5

dimly; faintly; absentmindedly; vacantly; idly; aimlessly

3

temple office (for receiving offerings or donations); (historical) office for storing land taxes

5

suspicious-looking; shady; questionable; dubious; fishy

1

this temple

3

back to back; discord; feud; opposite sides of the same coin

3

to cease; to desist; to cut it out; to lay off (an activity); to drop (a subject) to abolish; to resign

3

satisfaction; contentment; sufficient; satisfactory; satisfying (an equation)

2

to serve (in a bowl, on a plate, etc.); to dish out; to pile up; to heap up; to administer (medicine, poison); to dose out; to put into (e.g. information in a report, meaning in a statement)

5

hands and feet

3

to calm down

1

even though it is not; despite not

1

Nichiren; Nichiren (Buddhist priest, 1222-82, founder of the Nichiren sect)

2

Buddhist priest; bonze; close-cropped hair; crew cut; boy; sonny

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opinion; view; comment

2

martial arts

2

splendid; nice; sufficient; fine (in the sense of "I'm fine"); well enough; OK

2

in swarms; in great crowds

2

to go uninvited; to call on without an invitation; to barge in on; to throng to; to crowd into; to converge upon

1

outline; main points; generally; on the whole; general; rough

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