jpdb beta

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

zenith; divine will; providence

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Harvard University

1

person working for someone else (followed by job title); hired

1

Ernest Fenollosa

2

salvation

1

opening a door

1

one's future; one's fate; one's way; one's path

1

titubation; shaking; swinging

1

Tokyo School of Fine Arts

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Tokyo University of the Arts (formerly Tokyo National University of Fine Arts and Music)

1

department of a university; undergraduate (course, program, etc.)

1

principal; headmaster

1

art club

1

serving concurrently as; holding the additional post of

2

art school

1

Yokoyama Taikan

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excellence; genius

1

westernization; westernisation

1

complete devotion (to); total commitment (to); unvarying support (for); unwavering fixation (on); rigid preoccupation (with)

1

antiques; old works of art

2

waking up; awakening; arousal; disillusion; disillusionment; awakening

1

materialism

1

moral culture; spiritual culture; culture born through the workings of the human mind (science, religion, philosophy, religion, art, etc.)

1

English writing; English sentence; English text; English literature; English lit

2

not feeling like doing ...; having no mind to ...; being in no mood for ...; indifferent; half-hearted; dispirited

3

you (people); gentlemen; ladies and gentlemen; my friends

2

to have an interest (in something); to feel inclined (toward doing something)

1

nature; natural constitution; innate disposition

1

material civilization; material civilisation

1

to return; to come home; to leave; to get home; to get to home plate

1

albino fox; white (spiritual) fox

1

to make (the best) use of; to put to good use; to let live; to keep alive; to revive; to resuscitate

1

to scramble for; to struggle for; to contend for; to fight for

1

to become rustic; to be countrified

1

Japanese philology; Japanese linguistics

1

common language; lingua franca; standard language (language variety understood throughout a country)

4

standard language (used in government, education, etc.); standard Japanese

3

vocal sound; phoneme

1

diction; grammar; syntax; usage; wording

1

difference; discrepancy; variation

4

special characteristics; peculiarity; distinctiveness

2

accent (on a syllable, word); stress; intonation; inflection; (language) accent (e.g. American, British); accent (e.g. in a design)

1

great antiquity; old-fashioned; long ago

1

to push away; to push aside; to shove

1

hearsay

1

mainland dialects (of Japanese, as opposed to the Ryukyu languages)

3

Ryukyuan languages

1

symbol used as a placeholder (either because a number of other words could be used in that position, or because of censorship); certain; unnamed; undisclosed

2

speech; tongue; dialect; brogue; bento; Japanese box lunch; petal

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