jpdb beta

godsend; lifesaver; timely offer; windfall

1

to serve (in a bowl, on a plate, etc.); to dish out; to pile up; to heap up; to administer (medicine, poison); to dose out; to put into (e.g. information in a report, meaning in a statement)

2

accomplishment; execution

1

to exaggerate

1

crisis management

1

borderline; boundary

2

information session; briefing; explanatory meeting

1

tenement house; row house

1

tatami mat (esp. as a measure of room size, either 1.82 sqm or 1.54 sqm)

1

one person; another name; nickname; alias

1

middle and high school; medium and high (level)

1

guest; visitor; customer; client; shopper

2

surprisingly; astonishingly; amazingly; alarmingly

2

countryside; country; 50-home township (comprised of 2-3 neighbourhoods)

2

village; hamlet; countryside; country

1

to follow; to shadow; to hanker after; to hover around

2

carefree; free from worry

1

rapidly; quickly; briskly; booming (e.g. of a drum)

1

thuddingly; plumping down (like a heavy weight)

1

in order; in turn; one by one

1

House of Representatives (lower house of the National Diet of Japan)

1

timid; fainthearted; weak-willed

1

girls' or women's division or section

1

wearisome; insipid; dull; irksome; wretched; vain

1

to make (tea; esp. matcha); to perform (a tea ceremony)

5

electric heat

1

heater

1

iron kettle

1

tea utensils

1

hearth; fireplace; furnace; kiln; young girl; childlike young woman

1

iron pot; kettle

1

charcoal fire

1

rude; impolite; mannerless; snotty

1

ill-mannered; rude

3

older brother; elder brother; young man; buddy; fella

2

to pitch forward; to fall forward

1

terrible; awful; I don't even want to talk about it; without reason; inevitable; that's just how it is

1

emotional instability

1

therefore; consequently; accordingly; for that reason

1

no longer being fond of someone; spiteful words or acts showing that one is disgusted with someone

1

matcha; powdered green tea

4

tea whisk; bamboo whisk for making Japanese tea; hair style where the hair is tied up in a bundle on the back of the head (resembling the shape of a tea whisk)

1

to mix; to stir; to scramble; to churn

1

weak matcha; light brown (color, colour)

1

to reach the point where ...; to come to ...; to come to be that ...; to start to ...; to begin to ...

1

good contrast; marked contrast

2

calligraphy (esp. Asian calligraphy based on Chinese characters)

1

beginner

2

printed style (of writing Chinese characters); square style; block style; standard style

1

broad-minded; open-minded; openhearted; generous; magnanimous

1