jpdb beta

fragment; scrap; piece; shred

1

halting (speech); faltering; stammering

2

few decades; many decades; several decades

1

Meiji era (1868.9.8-1912.7.30)

1

century; hundred years; (fig.) a long time

2

surprise; astonishment; wonder; amazement

1

herself; she herself

1

faint-inducing; dizzying; overwhelming; mind-numbing; staggering

1

solitude; loneliness; isolation

1

descendant of a god; heavenly grandson

1

ugly; unattractive; bad-looking; unsightly; unseemly; disgraceful

2

handing down (information); legend; tradition; folklore; transmission

2

(period of) a year; during the era (of)

1

to show (someone) out; to see (someone) off; to forward; to dispatch (goods); to push (one's opponent) out of the ring from behind

1

legend; folklore; tradition

1

to come to realize; to become aware (of)

2

to love

4

to be worried; to be troubled

1

will; volition; intention; intent; determination

2

to not understand; to not (quite) know; to be unsure; to be unable to tell

1

life; vitality; verve; vigor; vigour; animation

1

to dwell (in); to exist (within); to stay (at); to stop (at); to be in the womb (of an unborn child); to be part of a constellation

2

light pink; light crimson

1

may; might; perhaps; may be; possibly

1

to stop up; to close up; to stand in the way; to obstruct; to occupy; to fill up

3

reaffirmation; reconfirmation; revalidation

1

knowing only too well; being fully aware of

1

weathering; fading (of memories); efflorescence

2

to permit; to allow; to forgive; to pardon; to exempt (someone) from; to remit; to acknowledge

2

sure to ...; certain to ...; bound to ...; it's natural that ...; it's obvious that ...

1

months and years

1

uniform; equal; even; common; ordinary; usual

1

to bloom; to blossom; to become lively (esp. of conversation); to become animated; to experience a golden age

1

to colour; to color; to apply make-up; to decorate; to garnish

1

what day; how many days

1

and yet; despite this; but even so; but even then; however; nevertheless

1

sprout; shoot; bud; germinal disk (in an egg)

1

to plant; to grow; to insert; to transplant; to inoculate (e.g. an infectious agent); to instill (idea, value, etc.)

1

to mark the end; to spell the end

1

to nip (something) in the bud

2

ordinary person; average person; man in the street; everyman; (a) nobody

1

there is no way that ...; easy; simple

2

poor; meagre; meager; feeble; scanty; shabby

1

straight; directly; voyage; journey; straight road

1

Shinagawa

1

Shinkansen; bullet train

1

to transfer (trains); to change (bus, train); to change (to another ideology, party, company, etc.); to switch (to a different system, method, etc.); to move on to (e.g. a new love interest)

1

shortest

1

route; path; channel (e.g. sales, distribution)

1

rotary; roundabout; traffic circle; rotary; rotating

2