jpdb beta

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3

coastline; shoreline; coastal railway

1

pine needle

1

to feel dizzy; to have blood rush to one's head; to lose one's cool; to be obsessed; to be infatuated; to become conceited

1

clear; splendid; cheerful; bright (e.g. look)

1

song; singing

2

side road; byroad; digression (e.g. from argument)

1

travelling (a long and difficult journey) on foot; walking (all the way) across; travelling through; travelling all over (e.g. a country); visiting all the major locations (of a region, etc.)

1

thirty houses

1

simple; artless; naive; unsophisticated

1

mountain dweller; person raised in the mountains

1

head; chief; leader; the greatest (of all the ...)

2

residence; estate; grounds; premises; mansion

1

old family; old-established family; one's old home; one's childhood home

1

main building (of a manor); central room (of a house)

1

bed; bedding; sickbed; alcove; riverbed; seedbed; straw "core" of a tatami mat

1

(a) scroll

1

axis; shaft; center; centre; stalk; stem

2

household head; master; host (e.g. of a tea gathering); husband

6

village headman; village mayor

2

favorite; favourite; pet

1

to go against; to oppose; to disobey; to defy

2

rubbing from stone (image, inscription, etc.); stone rubbing; rubbed copy

3

tokonoma; alcove where art or flowers are displayed

1

strange; unfamiliar; mysterious; suspicious

1

transcription (of a text, DNA, RNA, etc.); copying; transfer (printing); transcription; transliteration

1

inscription; epitaph; epigraph

1

to print; to color or pattern fabric using a wooden mold

2

trace; tracks; site; remains; scar

1

dimly white

1

to be photographed; to be projected

1

before it happens; beforehand

1

mansion (of a noble); manor house; official residence (of a noble or government official); small castle; fort

23

castle on the plains

2

Heijō-kyō (capital of Japan from 710-40 and 745-84; located in present-day Nara)

1

fortress; stronghold; citadel

5

all that one has; all that there is; the whole

1

north and south; north to south; South Korea and North Korea

1

district; quarter; enclosure; area enclosed by earthwork; red-light district

12

going in and out; entering and exiting; visiting regularly; frequenting; income and expenditure; incomings and outgoings; increase and decrease

2

palace; court

3

forest; woodland; woods; area of dense woody vegetation

6

to become less crowded; to thin out; to get empty; to be hungry

4

railing; handrail; balustrade

4

comfortably; peacefully; freely; (growing) quickly

1

shape of a tree

1

all one's life; throughout one's life; as long as one lives

2

local governor (Edo period); local magistrate; bailiff; deputy official (Middle Ages); acting administrator

8

residence; mansion

1

looter; thief at the scene of a fire; someone who takes advantage of a crisis to commit a crime

1