jpdb beta

to play accompaniment; to keep time; to cheer; to applaud; to jeer; to mock

2

sarcastic; having a sharp tongue; having a sharp nasty tongue

3

musical instrument; music; accompaniment instruments used in kabuki (excluding the shamisen)

1

baseball stadium; ballpark

1

rhombus; rhomb; lozenge; diamond shape

3

only; nothing but

1

sock it!; wallop it!; make a good hit!

1

empathy

3

Koshien Stadium, a baseball stadium in Koshien which is the venue of the annual high school baseball tournaments; High school baseball in Japan, the tournaments generally referred to as Kōshien, named after the stadium; Koshien, Nishinomiya, Hyōgo Prefecture, a neighborhood of Nishinomiya, Hyōgo, Japan

1

to trample down; to tread on; to ignore; to spurn

6

etiquette; courtesy

1

welcome home

3

halite; rock salt

26

-like; pseudo-; comical character who mocks or apes the main character (in Japanese performing arts); (arch.) criticism; (arch.) censure

17

karma; result of one's karma; fate; uncontrollable temper

2

carving; engraving; sculpture; tattoo

1

candlestick; candlestand

1

artistic

4

dedication; offering; presentation; oblation

28

dusty

1

note (letter) left behind; will

4

flickering; flashing on and off; glaringly (bright); painfully (bright); prickling (pain)

2

real condition; actual circumstances; actual state of affairs

2

to use as a pretext; to use as an excuse

1

regular customer; regular patron; frequenter; constant companion

8

throughout; over a period of ...; over a span of ...

1

various articles

1

junk; rubbish; trash; garbage; odds and ends

1

cone (e.g. pine, hemlock)

1

to get on a horse; to mount a horse

3

layman (esp. as opposed to a Buddhist monk); laity; local manners; modern customs; common; popular

2

to be fated to; be linked by fate

2

Naga

11

upper half of the body; upper body

1

old furniture; curios; secondhand goods

8

antique; curio

8

quotient; dealing; dealer; second degree (of the Japanese and Chinese pentatonic scale); Shang dynasty (China, approx. 1600-1046 BCE); Yin dynasty

8

great-grandfather; great-granddad; great-grandad

2

territory

2

negative; contradictory

1

porcelain (esp. soft-paste porcelain); china; chinaware; earthenware; pottery; ceramics

9

prickling; stinging; tingling

1

stove; furnace; kiln

5

fake goods; imitations

1

to cut apart (cloth, paper, etc.); to sever (ties); to break off (relationship); to cut off (enemy's retreat); to block (road, etc.)

3

in the mountains; among the mountains

10

to gaze at; to fix one's eyes upon

3

et cetera; etc.; and the like; and so forth

1

enmity; grudge

1

far and away the best; the very best; cream of the crop; crème de la crème; decisive lead; commanding lead

1