jpdb beta

frame; framework; border; box; limit; restriction; category

3

to enclose; to surround; to shelter (e.g. a criminal); to shield; to keep (e.g. a mistress); to store (vegetables, fruit, etc.)

1

colluding; complicity; liaison; compromise; giving in

3

territory; dominion; grounds (e.g. school)

1

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

4

temporary; provisional; interim

1

other than; excluding; without

3

to lean over (someone); to bend over; to lean on; to weigh on one; to bear (heavily) on one; to lie on one

1

in a day; in a brief space of time

1

matchless; unequalled; unequaled

1

to have a limit; to go too far (e.g. joke)

3

to lie down; to throw oneself down

1

to die; to expire

2

dainty; delicate (e.g. fingers); fine; sensitive; delicate (feelings, sense, etc.); subtle

2

to (do) like this

4

expresses a firm view or feeling; please ...; would you ...

1

hearsay

1

of the time; at the time; of the hour; in vogue; sought after

2

ghost; apparition; goblin; monster; something unusually large

2

unnatural phenomenon; strange happenings; haunting

2

Japan

1

all over the country

1

here and there; all around; everywhere; to get things in the wrong order (back to front); to become muddled up

2

to be handed down; to be introduced; to be transmitted; to be circulated; to go along; to walk along

6

minor; small; minor (key, scale, etc.); the minor leagues (US baseball)

1

several; various; divergent; conflicting; different; diverse

1

bamboo thicket; bamboo grove

1

light; faint; pale; fleeting

3

bamboo (any grass of subfamily Bambusoideae); middle (of a three-tier ranking system)

2

counter for temples

1

moso bamboo (Phyllostachys pubescens); tall bamboo cultivated for its edible shoots

1

(with) great vigour (from the way splitting bamboo goes all down the stick); irresistible force

1

breaking bamboo

1

to replace; to move; to change the position of

1

word game; wordplay; playing with words

1

88 temples of Shikoku (holy spots related to Kobo Daishi)

3

western part of Japan (esp. Kyushu, but ranging as far east as Kinki); western nations (esp. India or Europe); thirty-three temples in the Kinki area containing statues of Kannon (Avalokitesvara); pilgrimage to the thirty-three temples sacred to Kannon

2

place; point; part; counter for places, parts, passages, etc.

5

well-known and unknown; somebodies and nobodies; both famous and humble

1

so to speak; so to call it; as it were

1

eighty; 80

4

list; wrist

1

pickled (something); pickled in (something); preserved in; overreliance on (e.g. medication); excessive use of

1

Shikoku (smallest of the four main islands of Japan)

1

generally; mainly; nearly all; almost all; gist; summary; staying within bounds

2

liver; innards; courage; spirit; crux; essential point

2

tragedy; tragic drama; tragic play; tragedy; calamity; disaster

1

misfortune; bad luck; unlucky year; critical year; (arch.) smallpox

1

Buddhist temple; religious building; church; cathedral

1

to crown; to cap; to prefix with; to start with; to begin with

2