jpdb beta

wintry sky; cold weather (in winter); wintry weather

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alone and dejected; lonely and downhearted; lonely and crestfallen

1

to look afar; to look at something while absorbed in reverie; to look at something while absorbed in one's thoughts

1

losing weight; slimming; lean person

2

one's circumstances; environment; situation (in life)

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as it is; plain (truth); bare; undisguised; unvarnished; unexaggerated

1

anyway; anyhow; at any rate; after all

1

to regard (as); to consider (to be); to deem; to look upon (as); to think of (as)

3

loyalty; sincerity; allegiance; fidelity; integrity

3

warm; mild; warm (of a colour); mellow; having enough money

1

a piece; a scrap; a fragment; iota; modicum; trace

2

prize; award

2

stipend (paid to court officials, samurai, etc.); salary; fief; (arch.) gift (given as a reward); (arch.) token of appreciation

2

warming; warmth

1

clothes; garment; gown; robe; coating (e.g. glaze, batter, icing)

3

to be blessed with; to be rich in; to abound in

1

official residence (for public servants)

1

(written) application; written request; petition; written prayer for a shrine or Buddhist temple

1

to head out (for); to head (to); to go (to); to leave (for)

2

director (of the ritsuryō-period Imperial Prosecuting and Investigating Office)

1

de facto marriage; common-law marriage

2

Minister of War (Zhou dynasty China)

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to relate; to narrate; to describe; to confer (a rank)

3

you (primarily used by men in letters to their equals or inferiors)

2

gloomy; melancholy; pessimistic; luxuriant (of vegetation)

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to be the case that

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misfortune; ill fate; bad luck; obscurity

3

to pay (e.g. money, bill); to brush off; to wipe away; to drive away (e.g. one's competitors); to sell off (something unneeded); to dispose of; to pay (e.g. attention)

4

state; country; nation; tutelary deity; god of grain

4

rat's nest

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the whole world; the seven seas

1

peace; tranquility; tranquillity; Heian period (794-1185)

2

to keep; to preserve; to hold; to last; to endure; to keep well (food)

2

reward and punishment

2

various; varied; diverse; petty; trivial; insignificant

1

unfairness; injustice; partiality

1

reporting to the Emperor

3

cheerful; bright; clear; clean; honest

1

to suffer; to receive (kindness, rebuke, support); to sustain (damage)

1

to have the blues; to be depressed

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audience with someone of high rank (e.g. the emperor)

1

near; close; beside; attendant; retainer; vassal

2

throne

8

We

2

pleading; entreaty; supplication; petition

1

I've heard that ...; rumour has it that ...; it appears as if ...

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vassal; attendant

1

to keep away; to keep at a distance

1

constraint; reserve; feeling hesitant; being afraid of troubling someone

3

lower floor; downstairs; bottom of the stairs; foot of the stairs

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