jpdb beta

section (e.g. in a newspaper); column; field (in a form, web page, etc.); blank; handrail; railing

1

to miss (doing); to fail (to do); to do without

1

present age; present day; contemporary; modern era; modern times; contemporary era

1

technology

1

these days; nowadays; now; at present; recently; lately

1

modern person; people of today

1

sympathy; empathy; response; identification (with someone)

1

cultural background

1

high-tech

2

Herculean task; next-to-impossible undertaking

1

beginning; opening; start; outset

1

author; writer; novelist; artist

1

speaking about (one's thoughts, memories, etc.); relating (one's feelings, reminiscences, etc.); recollection; reminiscence

1

origin; source; history; originally; from the start; by nature

1

Bakumatsu period; closing days of the Tokugawa shogunate; end of the Edo period

1

loyalty to the Emperor (especially during the late Edo period movement to overthrow the shogunate)

1

imperial loyalist samurai of the Bakumatsu-era; patriots; idealists willing to sacrifice themselves for the good of the nation

1

Takasugi Shinsaku (1839.9.27-1867.5.17)

1

dodoitsu; unrhymed non-metrical Japanese popular love song or limerick in the 7-7-7-5 syllable pattern

3

out of tune; (poetic) broken meter

1

fingering an object (in killing time); amusing oneself; diversion; gambling

1

sexy

2

first and second volume (e.g. of a book); volume one and volume two; book one and book two

1

conclusion; completion

1

dose; installment; instalment

1

introduction, development, turn and conclusion (quadripartite structure of certain Chinese poetry); story composition and development

1

main thread (of a story)

1

(not) always; (not) necessarily; (not) entirely; (not) all

1

small-format paperback book; pocket paperback

1

original (written) work (i.e. a new novel, play, music, etc.); newly written work; specially written work; writing (a new work) specially (for a publication, film, exhibition, etc.)

4

one third; a third part

1

drumming (noise); beating; rapidly; quickly; continuously; one after the other

1

luckily; blessedly; fortunately

1

side

1

pardon; forgiveness; exemption; permission

1

rewriting; rewrite; fair copy

1

last year

1

February; second month of the lunar calendar

1

the seven treasures (gold, silver, pearls, agate, crystal, coral, lapis lazuli); cloisonne ware; shippō pattern (of overlapping circles); shippō emblem

3

beautiful story

3

300; three hundred; 300 mon; trifling amount; shyster

1

to lead a life; to live a life

1

starting work (on); setting to work (on); commencing (a crime); playing (a move)

1

timewise; temporal; chronal

1

to publish a book; to put out a book

1

to pass (of time); to elapse

1

endless; boundless; everlasting

1

trouble; bother; annoyance

1

new book; 17x11 cm paperback book

3

(large) building; public building; hall

3