jpdb beta

silk

2

high-quality goods; luxury item

1

on an island; on-island

1

spinning (textiles); spun yarn

1

industry; (arch.) livelihood; (arch.) occupation

1

(medieval) knight; samurai on horseback

10

aquaculture; culture; cultivation; raising

2

youthful; young; young-looking

2

instead; but (on the other hand)

5

willow (any tree of genus Salix); weeping willow (Salix babylonica)

1

fishing line

4

to get strong; to gain strength

4

bursting with youth and energy (esp. young woman); vivaciously young; (fish) jumping around energetically (e.g. when caught in a net); bursting (e.g. seams); tight; splattering (e.g. cooking oil)

1

to wriggle; to writhe; to squirm; to scrawl

1

teriyaki (meat or fish marinated in sweet soy sauce and broiled)

1

grilling (fish) with salt; broiling with salt; boiling seawater to get salt

2

sashimi (raw sliced fish, shellfish or crustaceans)

1

sashimi prepared from live fish, arranged in its original shape; fresh sashimi

1

roasting; grilling; tempering (in metallurgy); -ware; porcelain

1

fish and chips

1

attraction

2

taking; taker; last performer of the day (usu. the star performer); last performance of the day; active partner (e.g. in judo demonstration); emphatic or formal prefix

1

season (for fruit, seafood, etc.); best time of the year (for); in vogue; popular; hot

2

scabbard; sheath; cap (on a brush, pen, etc.); case; margin (between two prices); spread

2

biting louse (any louse of order Mallophaga); small winged insect (esp. a flying ant or termite)

1

to fly in the air

9

sunlight; sunshine; Nikkō (city in Tochigi); Suryaprabha (bodhisattva)

3

growing en masse in one location (of plants); living gregariously (of animals); living in flocks, herds, colonies, etc.; all living creatures

2

mimosa (Mimosa pudica); sensitive plant; touch-me-not

1

bivalve

1

compound leaf; multifoliate leaf; biplane (aircraft)

1

secretion

1

retention; maintenance; preservation

2

pair; couple; antithesis; counter for items that come in pairs; counter for sets (of clothes, small furniture, utensils, etc.)

1

edamame (green soybeans)

1

(non-documentary) television series; TV drama; teledrama; drama; dramatic incident; spectacle

15

hardworking; painstaking; diligent; conscientious; sincere

1

after this; henceforth; henceforward; from now on

1

official business; public business

2

rolling up one's sleeves

1

draining basket (traditionally made of bamboo); colander; something full of holes; zaru soba; strong drinker; someone who can drink like a fish

1

cartoon-character costume

2

benevolence (esp. as a virtue of Confucianism); consideration; human; kernel; nucleolus

1

crane (any bird of the family Gruidae, esp. the red-crowned crane, Grus japonensis)

1

pine tree (Pinus spp.); highest (of a three-tier ranking system)

2

recess; break time; break between classes; free period; recess time; recreation hour

1

to throw off (clothes); to cast off; to fling off; to cast off (old ideas, habits, etc.); to discard

2

presenting a case; suing

1

wheat gluten (usu. steamed or baked)

1

tray; family; household; Obon; Bon Festival; gambler's den

2