jpdb beta

household; home; family; housekeeping

2

meaning; significance; sense

4

unthinkable; unexpected; absolutely not!; far from it!; (it was) no bother at all; not at all

1

to call out; to ask someone to come

1

head (of a household); proprietor (of a store); one's husband; (one's) employer; (one's) master; host

1

tatami room; tatami mat room; formal Japanese room; dinner party in a tatami room (esp. when a geisha or maiko attends)

1

burn; scald

1

neat; trim; tidy; pretty

2

inn

1

cleaning of the bath

1

from the beginning; from scratch

1

to do over again; to redo; to start over; to remake; to resume; to recommence

2

to whistle

1

to burst into tears; to burst out crying; to begin to cry; to be moved to tears

1

complaint

1

exactly; just; precisely; punctually; exactly on time

1

to be too numerous; to be too much

1

to be lacking in options; to be too few

1

rate; ratio; profit; assignment; 10%; unit of ten percent; match

2

just right (time, size, length, etc.)

1

to exchange glances; to correspond; to counterbalance

1

best; extra-fine; superfine; exceptionally; extraordinarily; by far

1

transactions; dealings; business

1

(one's) father-in-law; (one's) employer; master; principal supporter of a temple; influential temple parishioner

2

banquet or reception hall

1

Emishi; historical term for non-Yamato peoples in northern Japan; Yezo (northern part of Meiji-era Japan, esp. Hokkaido, but also Sakhalin and the Kuril Islands)

1

ahead; before; the future

3

to stretch; to extend; to straighten out; to be flattened; to spread (of paint, cream, etc.); to stretch out (e.g. of a hand); to extend

1

mum; mom

2

manner of speaking; mode of expression; way of saying something

1

to hate; to detest

3

beautiful woman; (a) beauty

1

like; similar to; as with; in the same way

1

precisely because

1

competition; rivalry; something worth doing

1

to put on (coat, gown, etc.)

1

carefree; buoyant; lighthearted; ease

1

and; thereupon; because of that

1

very common way of tying a woman's kimono sash

1

slovenly

1

to become brilliant; to become cheerful

1

to soar; to fly high; to be whirled up; to make merry; to be ecstatic; to be in high spirits

1

more than usual

1

completion; finish; workmanship; result; outcome

1

Benten (goddess of arts and wisdom)

2

chimes; toll of a bell

2

to stay bottled up inside oneself; to be introverted; to have a melancholic appearance, atmosphere (of a person, object, place); to have a gloomy appearance

2

terrific; staggering; tremendous; frightful; ghastly; horrific

2

to sound; to ring; to resound; to echo; to roar; to rumble

2

common reed (Phragmites australis)

3