jpdb beta

influential vassal; powerful retainer; powerful courtier

1

family name; lineage; birth; clan

2

upper reaches (of a river); upper stream; top; upper part; long ago; beginning; first

2

reversal; return; return gift; return favour (favor); barb (on a fishing hook); mixture of soy sauce, sugar and mirin

1

Department of the Imperial Household

1

ceremony; celebration; law code

1

Teruoki

1

collecting; gathering

1

special duty; being in sole charge of a duty; senior managing director; executive director

1

shrines and temples

14

making a living; means of living; livelihood

2

living; livelihood

3

protection; safeguard; guardianship; preservation; conservation

5

ten; 10; ten years of age

5

counter for bundles

1

bundle; sheaf

1

to cling to; to hang onto; to rely on; to depend on; to implore; to entreat

2

direction; orientation; bearing; course (e.g. of action)

4

handicrafts

1

side job (outside of one's main employment); side gig; part job (carried out at home); home industry; (secretly) working on something unrelated to the class (or conference, etc.) one is attending

1

other than; except for; aside from; apart from; save for

1

principal occupation; core business

3

to be conspicuous; to stand out

2

to build up; to complete; to construct; to make up; to fabricate; to invent

1

thoughtless; reckless; rash; excessive; unreasonable; immoderate

2

well

9

counter for temples

11

lecture on the sutras

60

Eizan

6

officiating priest; presiding priest at a ceremony; religious teacher; highly-ranked priest; guru; instructor (yoga, etc.)

1

leading (movement, revolution, etc.); guiding; instructing in Buddhism; converting (someone) to Buddhism; advocacy

45

blessings bestowed by the Buddha on all living creatures

1

retribution

1

example; illustration; precedent

1

chapter and verse; paragraph; passage

2

importance; emphasis; stress

1

name of a piece of music; (musical) number; (musical) program; programme; selection (of music)

3

complete change; about-face

2

subordinate person

2

source of funds; resources; finances

2

to request; to beg; to call; to order; to entrust to; to rely on

2

to make a living

1

Konjaku Monogatarishū (abbr) (31-volume collection of stories written during the late Heian period); The Tale of Konjaku

2

Buddhist priest; bonze; close-cropped hair; crew cut; boy; sonny

1

paper

1

order; rank

1

Buddha; Shakyamuni; Buddhist image; figure of Buddha; the dead; dead person

3

hateful; abominable; poor-looking; amazing; fantastic; admirable

1

fantastic; grotesque; strange-looking; suspicious-looking

2

official who arranges festival and rites

1