jpdb beta

(rocky) beach; seashore

3

posture; position; stance

2

little by little; bit by bit

2

to be rejuvenated; to feel young again

1

sign; indication; omen; symptom

4

arching one's body backwards (like a shrimp); holding out one or both hands and arching one's body backwards like a shrimp (to represent being overwhelmed by someone's power)

1

rocky area; rocky tract; rocky stretch (of a climb); wall (of rock)

3

cramped

1

rare; uncommon

2

distorted; crooked; oval; elliptical shape; round, wooden container for cooked rice; oval coin

1

way; manner; school (e.g. of flower arrangement); class; rate; flow

1

a baby's first bath

4

sea otter (Enhydra lutris)

1

counter for waves (of a repeated occurrence)

1

harbour

1

fishing harbour; fishing harbor

7

wooden house; frame house (building)

2

kitchen garden

1

(overnight) stay; lodging

1

travelling alone; solitary journey

1

aizuchi; backchanneling; interjections indicating that one is paying attention; two smiths hammering at an object in turn

1

Masako

7

management (of a house, store, etc.); administration; cutting up and serving food; cut and fill (e.g. earthwork)

1

to instruct; to tell to do; to ask to do; to order

1

piece of wood at the front edge of an entranceway floor; front portion of the floor of the genkan

4

hot topic; talk of the town

1

imposingly; heavily; conspicuously; in a dignified manner

1

to omit; to leave out; to overtake; to pass; to say; to speak

1

too terrible to look at; unbearable to look at

1

omen; portent; sign; presage; harbinger; premonition

1

islander; inhabitant of an island

5

I'm sorry; (it's) inexcusable; I feel regretful; thank you very much (for help, etc.)

1

for oneself; for one's own sake; on one's own account

1

restoration; restitution; rehabilitation

1

life-size; life-sized; true-to-life; faithful (depiction); realistic

2

(early) childhood

1

(one) before last; two before; two in front (e.g. rows)

1

misfortune; adverse fortune; hapless fate; checkered (life, career, etc.); varied; eventful

1

to trace back to (the origins of something)

1

to be pregnant; to be with child

1

dramatization (e.g. of a novel); dramatisation; adaptation (for the stage or screen); embellishment (of the facts); exaggeration; dramatization

2

one's family temple; temple with one's family grave

1

cinnabar; vermilion (mercury sulfide); red color; vermilion pigment; elixir (esp. of immortality); pill

1

old family; old-established family; one's old home; one's childhood home

1

epitaph; inscription on a tomb

7

to carve into; to cut into; to engrave into; to inscribe

1

posthumous Buddhist name

3

principal cause

1

reverence; respect

31

oversight; omission; something overlooked; thing left unnoticed

1