jpdb beta

day in question; appointed day; that very day; the day (of issue, publication, etc.)

4

neighboring districts; neighbouring districts; countryside

1

hustle and bustle; throng; crowd; congestion; traffic jam

1

young persons' association

3

performance (at a party or banquet, etc.); side show; entertainment

1

make-up; get-up; disguise; costume

3

line; queue; procession; matrix

3

echo; reverberation; spirit of a tree; tree spirit

1

to be crowded with people; to be bustling with; to prosper; to flourish; to do thriving business

3

to grow hot (e.g. water); to boil; to get excited (at); to erupt (in applause, cheering, etc.); to ferment; to melt (of metal)

2

preceding issue (of a magazine, etc.); last issue; preceding item (in a legal text)

4

ghastly; gruesome; appalling; lurid

1

large quantity; massive (quantity); mass (e.g. mass production, mass transit, mass destruction)

1

correspondence; communication; transmission; news; signal; telecommunications

6

mountains and rivers; natural surroundings

4

pure land (esp. the Western Pure Land paradise of Amitabha); (Buddhist) paradise; Pure Land Buddhism

4

deed; act; work; performance

1

waking; waking up; awakening

1

counter for months

4

liver; innards; courage; spirit; crux; essential point

1

cold (e.g. weather); uninteresting (esp. joke); lame; dull

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Hida (city, region of Gifu Prefecture, Edo-period province)

6

former visit

1

to spread (of a rumour, news, etc.); to travel; to be handed down (from generation to generation); to be passed down; to be introduced (to a country, region, etc.); to be brought; to be conveyed (of a feeling, impression, etc.)

5

clave-like folk instrument; two bamboo pieces beaten together

1

to send; to forward; to hand over (e.g. money); indicates that the action is directed towards the speaker; indicates that the object of an action arrives at or is received by the speaker

7

song lyrics; words of a song; libretto

1

bamboo grass; generally smaller species of running bamboo that do not shed their sheaths (e.g. Sasa spp.)

2

ship; boat; tank; tub; counter for boat-shaped containers (e.g. of sashimi)

2

to place on (something); to give (someone) a ride; to give a lift; to load (luggage); to carry; to send out (on the airwaves, etc.); to deceive

8

to sink; to go under; to go down (e.g. sun); to set; to feel depressed; to become subdued

5

to float; to become merry; to be cheerful; to become loose; to become unsteady; to feel out of it; to be cut off (e.g. from those around you)

4

to escape

5

piece(s) of firewood (esp. chopped or split from logs); kindling (twigs, branches, etc.); firewood

1

to cut (grass, hair, etc.); to mow; to clip; to trim; to prune; to shear

4

august; beautiful

2

mountain; vicinity of a mountain

1

kariginu; informal clothes worn by the nobility from the Heian period onwards; patterned kariginu (Edo period)

1

to throw off (clothes); to cast off; to fling off; to cast off (old ideas, habits, etc.); to discard

1

posterity; future generations

3

The Narrow Road to the Deep North (chronicle by Matsuo Basho, published in 1702)

4

sigh (of grief, disappointment, etc.); grieving; lamenting; deploring

2

to go to ruin; to go under; to fall; to be destroyed; to die out; to become extinct

6

on the one hand ... (and on the other ...); on one side

1

each (person); individually; one by one; one at a time; in turn

2

burning; combustion; exerting all strength; making an effort

1

to do ... incessantly; to do ... hard; (arch.) to happen repeatedly; (arch.) to happen over and over again

1

human; humane

1

even the prosperous inevitably decay; sic transit gloria mundi; all that's fair must fade

2

reason; logic; sense; natural way of things

3