jpdb beta

glamorous; charming; beguiling; bewitching; beautiful; fascinatingly elegant

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gold or silver lacquer; lacquer decoration sprinkled with metal powder

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scattered animal feed; ground bait

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mirror stand

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bastards; guys; lads

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temper; nerves

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to be seething (with anger); to be frenzied; to be menacing; to be murderous

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place to die; place of death

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dresser

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barbarian tribes surrounding ancient China

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sand; grit

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large room; green room; waiting room for performers when off stage; junior actor; actor of small parts; large hospital room (for several patients)

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karuta; traditional Japanese playing cards

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karuta; traditional Japanese playing cards

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betting; gambling

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to rise up (e.g. pillar of smoke); to go up

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condition; figure; appearance; voice

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untiringly; persistently; without losing interest

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flopping (e.g. on a bed); scattering (e.g. limbs horizontally)

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to cross one's legs

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petty underling; small fry

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to be exhausted

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miserable; pitiful; tragic; painstaking

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to increase; to multiply

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(arch.) it is not so; no; never mind

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sutra

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ban (e.g. on smoking); prohibition

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charm; incantation; spell; curse

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astringent; bitter; austere; elegant (and unobtrusive); sour (look); glum

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handwriting; calligraphy specimen; example of penmanship; holograph

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children; juvenile

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expresses a firm view or feeling; please ...; would you ...

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to sing (chant, speak) with a melody or rhythm; to set to music (verse, lyrics, etc.)

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beauty

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remote past; far ago; time immemorial

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song; ballad

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hymns of praise in Japanese

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Japanese mathematics; mathematics developed in Japan

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complaint; grumbling; objection; phrase; words; expression

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

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to take to task; to take it out on

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unavoidable; inevitable; beyond one's control

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Buddha's teaching

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bodhisattva; one who has reached enlightenment but vows to save all beings before becoming a buddha; High Monk (title bestowed by the imperial court); title bestowed to Shinto kami in manifestation theory

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sravaka (disciple of Buddha); adherent of Hinayana Buddhism

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(good fortune and happiness will come to) the home of those who smile

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bhikkhu (fully ordained Buddhist monk)

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(wicker) basket used for carrying fish; creel

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bhikkhuni (fully ordained Buddhist nun); travelling female entertainer dressed as a nun (Kamakura, Muromachi periods); lowly prostitute dressed as a nun (Edo period); female servant hired to take the blame for a noblewoman's farts

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upasaka (devout male lay follower of Buddhism)

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