jpdb beta

spirit; psyche; god; deity; divinity

4

side (esp. of a waterbody); edge; bank; shore

2

poor (living); barely continuing; just scraping along; very narrow

1

to go upstream; to go up (a river); to go back (to the past or origin); to date back (to); to trace back (to)

4

Hida (city, region of Gifu Prefecture, Edo-period province)

13

Shinshū (alt. name of former Shinano province)

19

nunnery; convent

4

rowdy fellow; tough; bully; ruffian

1

fart; gas; wind; worthless thing; insignificant thing

1

Buddhist nun; Catholic nun; sister; bitch; Amagasaki (city in Hyogo Prefecture); Amazon (online retailer)

20

Mr; Mrs; Miss; politeness marker

13

old woman; joker (in old maid)

1

no; nope; naah

3

helplessly; easily; without resistance; without regret

1

eh?; what?; yes; that's correct; used for soft emphasis or to soften a statement or request; (arch.) strengthens a question, assertion, etc.

4

pretty; lovely; clean; clear; completely; entirely

1

lacking a chief priest (of a temple); temple without a chief priest; being uninhabited; being vacant; non-attachment

2

to fall into ruin; to become dilapidated; to become run-down; to become desolate; to be badly neglected

2

to live; to reside; to inhabit

2

chairmanship; presidency; management; president; chairman

1

convenient; favorable; favourable; expedient; expedience

1

too much; excessive; too

1

lonely (place); remote; in the middle of nowhere

2

lonely (e.g. person, feeling); lonesome; desolate; deserted; sad; lacking

8

without; but if; otherwise; or else

2

to be reluctant (to do); to be unwilling (to do); to falter; to slacken; to have a frequent urge to defecate but difficulty passing stool; to suffer from tenesmus

1

huff!; yo-heave-ho!; yoisho! (word shouted by the spectators during a yokozuna's ritual stomps); yoisho (filler word in folk music, etc.); flattery; buttering up (someone)

1

overhead; above one's head; high in the sky

1

speech; tongue; dialect; brogue; bento; Japanese box lunch; petal

1

weight

1

kan (obs. unit of weight, approx. 3.75 kg, 8.3 lb); kan (obs. unit of currency, equiv. to 1000 mon in the Edo period; col. 10 mon in the Meiji period); counter for pieces of sushi; 10 points; 12 points

3

stone mortar; millstone; quern

1

red; crimson; red-containing colour (e.g. brown, pink, orange); Red (i.e. communist); red light (traffic); red ink (i.e. in finance or proof-reading); (in) the red

1

bang; bam; noontime signal gun (carried out early Meiji to Taishō); noon gun; last round in a game of 12 rounds; precisely

5

to be astonished; to be flabbergasted; to be startled; to be amazed

2

in any case; at any rate; anyhow; because; since; for

1

because; as; since; because of that; therefore; accordingly

10

young man; youth; lad; servant boy; young shopboy

1

creeping at night into a woman's bedroom; stealing into a girl's bedroom at night to make love; sneaking visit

1

severe; harsh

2

to experience (something unpleasant); to go through; to suffer

1

to drive away; to turn away; to send away; to repel; to repulse

1

night burglar

1

wandering samurai; soldier of fortune; brigand; mountain-dwelling robber

1

to stay at (e.g. hotel); to be docked; to be berthed; to be moored

5

night attack

1

then; if so; if

4

to carry on one's shoulder; to shoulder; to bear; to bear (a burden, responsibility, etc.); to take upon oneself

1

to throw down; to bring down; to kill; to defeat; to overthrow; to trip up

3

to tie up (roughly; esp. to prevent escape); to bind; to arrest

1