jpdb beta

make; workmanship; preparation

2

songs with samisen accompaniment; musical performance

1

time for ...; time to ...; good time to ...; opportunity to ...; season

1

luckily; happily

1

to get (someone) drunk; to inebriate; to intoxicate; to charm; to enchant

1

beacon; skyrocket; signal fire; starting shot; starting signal

2

to (call and) stop; to call (someone) to stop; to hail (e.g. a taxi)

3

to attack; to destroy; to defeat; to conquer; to avenge

7

intuition; instinct; hunch

6

power; influence

1

since one was born; in one's (entire) life; in all one's life

2

to deepen; to heighten; to intensify

1

that sort of; like that

1

to be suspicious of (someone's motives); to suspect (that)

1

to wake; to wake up; to wear off (of drunkenness, anaesthesia, etc.); to regain consciousness; to come to one's senses; to be disillusioned

3

prediction; prophecy; prognostication; (religious) prophecy

2

rights and interests (esp. those a country holds abroad)

2

act (usu. undesirable); action; deed; conduct

2

cannot help feeling that; cannot help thinking that

2

however; because; as

3

to take more time than expected; to take a long time; to be delayed

2

four and a half tatami mats; four-and-a-half-mat room; small room esp. for assignations

1

new mat

1

ways of sitting

1

nature (of a person); sex; gender; sex (i.e. sexual attraction, activity, etc.); gender; -ty

4

what's in one's heart; one's emotional state; what one feels

3

to be hard (to do); to be difficult; to require much effort; to be laborious; to be backbreaking; to have trouble (doing)

1

to improve one's skill

1

intermittently; bit by bit; little by little; in drops (e.g. of rain)

1

to stick; to get stuck; to be unavailable; to be busy; to be piled up (e.g. of work); to halt (in one's speech)

4

sitting cross-legged

1

people; populace

1

to tell; to (try to) persuade; to advise; to warn; to admonish; to reason

2

to look downwards (at); to lower one's gaze; to drop one's eyes

7

broken; interrupted; disconnected; intermittent; fragmentary; discontinuous

2

to use and then throw away

1

fate; destiny; predestination

1

to lose one's way; to get lost

6

rather; sooner; preferably; on the contrary; if anything

4

turmoil; chaos; confusion

2

to single out; to select

2

(in the) good name (of); (fine-sounding) pretext; good reputation; good name; beautiful name

1

decoration; order; medal

2

interference; intervention; meddling

9

ought to do; have to do; must do; feel obliged to

5

forked road; crossroads

1

self-deprecation; self-derision; self-mockery; laughing at oneself

2

to cause harm (to)

2

with a clatter; with a fling (opening a door, window, etc.); bright and clear (weather, sky, etc.); perfectly (fine weather); nicely dry (laundry, air, etc.); crisply (fried, cooked, etc.); cheerfully

2

I'm sorry; my apologies; may I come in?; permission; leave; dismissal

3