jpdb beta

(arch.) sudden; (arch.) abrupt; (arch.) stupid; (arch.) foolish; attaining enlightenment in one effort (without ascetic practices, etc.)

2

to extol; to give praise

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Heike family; Taira family; The Tale of the Heike; chanting of the Heike Monogatari

8

to be ruined; to go under; to perish; to be destroyed

1

subject; theme

3

artificiality; pretence; contrived act; commission (of a crime); feasance

1

the Three Jewels; the Triple Gem; Triratna; the Three Treasures; Buddha, Dharma, Sangha; Buddha, the teachings of Buddha, and the community of monks and nuns

1

picture; drawing; painting; image (TV, film, etc.); picture; footage

2

collection; compilation

25

miracle; wonder; wondrous thing

1

treasure; treasured item; prized possession

1

selection (e.g. of poems, texts); anthology; selected extracts

1

excerpt; extract; annotation; shō (unit of volume, approx. 1.8 ml)

1

sand and stone; pebble

1

Genji (the character in the Genji Monogatari); the Minamoto family

1

this world; this life; current epoch (i.e. the Holocene epoch)

4

afterlife; the hereafter

1

(one's) life

5

skillful; adroit; craft; craftsmanship; plot; scheme

1

sorrow; grief; anguish; trouble; affliction; anxiety

1

comfort; consolation; diversion

1

Go Komatsu

1

to become the subject of rumours or conversations

1

white; unseasoned; undyed; very much; precisely; playing dumb

1

to walk; to go on foot; to tread (a figurative path); to follow; to advance towards (e.g. a solution); to set out (e.g. on the path to destruction, ruin, etc.)

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(arch.) dancing girl (end of the Heian period); prostitute; tempo in gagaku

2

individual concrete phenomenon (as opposed to a general principle)

1

simplification

1

meaning; point (e.g. of a statement); gist; goal; intent; object

1

expression; confession

3

aphorism; epigram; witticism; bon mots

1

audience; congregation

1

zhen (one of the trigrams of the I Ching: thunder, east)

1

three countries; Three Kingdoms (in China, 220 CE-280 CE); Three Kingdoms (in Korea, 57 BCE-668 CE); (arch.) Japan, China and India; (arch.) Japan, Korea and China

1

speech; address

4

reading aloud; recitation; intoning

1

narrow sense (e.g. of a word)

3

moreover; in addition

2

formal

1

Japanization; Japanisation

1

to decrease (in size or number); to diminish; to abate

1

course (e.g. of lectures); academic university unit (professor, lecturers, etc.)

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Buddha and gods

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(arch.) true form of a buddha; land of origin

3

last moves (in go, shogi, or chess); endgame; gathering; collecting; coming together

1

lecturer

5

diversion; appropriation (e.g. of funds); misappropriation; re-use (e.g. old computer parts); recycling

1

easy; simple; plain

1

sutra book

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yen (Japanese monetary unit); circle

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