jpdb beta

important person; influential figure; big shot; big thing; big one; big game

1

rough (estimate, outline, etc.); broad; general; generous; openhanded

1

(understanding or appreciation of) culture; (one's) education; cultivation; sophistication; refinement

5

depth; length

1

personality; character; personal appearance; gentility

1

main gate

10

car; vehicle; van; (train) car; carriage

1

vehicle; horse-drawn carriage

1

astonishing; amazing; surprising; wonderful

2

slightest notice; slightest consideration; slightest attention; a little thought; glance

1

offering (to a shogun, emperor, daimyo, kami or Buddha)

1

unusual receptacle; unusual utensil

1

ten; 10; (arch.) book containing a collection of poems

1

fine wines and prized delicacies

1

thousand-fold

1

chair; seat; stool; post; position; seat

2

spiritual realm of humanity

1

moral influence

2

wonderful; marvelous; strange; strangely enough; oddly enough; for some reason

2

playing the game of go

1

Saika

1

roof tile; tiled roof; objects crowded together (e.g. houses)

2

to trail (of smoke, clouds, etc.); to hang (of mist, haze, etc.); to lie (over); to linger; to flow (e.g. of hair in the wind)

2

to shine; to glow; to look attractive; to look nice; to be set off (by)

2

to shine

1

daytime; during the day; Japan and China; Japanese-Chinese; Sino-Japanese

2

visitor

1

famous; notorious; noted

1

encompassing; covering (exhaustively); including (all of); comprising; comprehending

1

Kikutei Harusue

1

Asukai

1

one line; one streak; one item (in an itemized form); one clause; one matter (affair, event, case, incident)

2

Konoe Sakihisa

2

husband and wife; married couple

2

long time; several hours; long spell

1

in the meanwhile; during the time

4

(head priest of) temple formerly led by founder of sect; temple in which resided a member of nobility or imperial family; (head priest of) Honganji (temple in Kyoto)

1

in the capital; in Tokyo; Western Tokyo; areas of Tokyo outside the 23 wards, esp. the Tama area

2

wealthy person; millionaire

1

public character

2

in and out; income and expenses; free associations; run of the house

2

interval; break; pause; gap (e.g. in the clouds); rift; cleft

1

emperor (of Japan); mikado; (the gates of an) imperial residence

3

seems; I think; I guess; right?; don't you agree?

2

to stop walking; to pause

1

dangling; swaying; (walking) leisurely; aimlessly; idly; lazily

2

rim; brim; edge; brink

2

Murai

8

Nagato (former province located in the west of present-day Yamaguchi Prefecture)

11

aristocrat; nobleman; dignitary; person of high rank

2