jpdb beta

illustrated story

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to run up to

1

treatment as a guest; guest

1

shoulders; body; honour; honor; prestige

1

woman who forced her husband into marriage

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trouble; problem; mess; difficulty; nuisance

1

working feverishly; strenuous efforts; furious dedication (to a task); (arch.) having dishevelled hair; (arch.) fighting with dishevelled hair

1

extremely busy; short-handed; (lit.) wanting even the help of a cat

1

prohibition; ban; embargo

4

mountain

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locals; natives

1

beat; mora

1

looking aside; looking away; (from the) eyes of an onlooker; outsider's view; looking on from the side

1

to give an order; to place an order; to have made to order

1

women's (of items, articles, etc.); ladies'; for women's use

1

dry-goods store

1

to give (as a gift); to present; to confer; to bestow; to award

2

tile-roofing

2

division (distribution) of roles; role-sharing

1

to be superfluous; to be in excess; to be more than enough

1

to load (a gun, etc.); to charge; to put into (e.g. emotion, effort); to include (e.g. tax in a sales price); to hang over; to shroud

1

present; gift

1

offer; tender; providing; sponsoring (a TV program)

1

honorific suffix used after the name of a woman of equal or higher status

3

affable; sociable; friendly

1

vitality; ability to earn a living

10

forced relocation of a daimyo to a different domain (Edo period); change of constituency (for a politician); change of district

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to vomit; to throw up; to emit; to send forth; to give (an opinion); to make (a comment)

2

to hate the very sight (of); to hold a grudge (against); to treat (someone) like an enemy; to bear constant enmity (towards); to be gunning for; to have it in for

1

precision; accuracy

1

to make (somewhere) one's final home; to make (a place) one's final resting place; to do (something) for the rest of one's life; to devote (the rest of) one's life to (something)

1

nod; inclination of the head

1

innocent look; nonchalant look; look of ignorance; air of innocence

2

to throw off (clothes); to cast off; to fling off; to cast off (old ideas, habits, etc.); to discard

2

facing south; southern exposure

1

sunny (room, etc.); well sunlit

1

one move (in go, shogi, etc.); only way; only means; doing alone; doing single-handed

1

area of the Edo castle where the shogun would work and spend his daily life

1

all green; winning hand consisting only of exclusively green tiles (green dragons and suited bamboo tiles of the numbers 2, 3, 4, 6 and 8)

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artificial hill (in a garden)

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having good eyesight

1

to hide oneself

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natural posture (esp. in judo); natural stance; natural attitude; relaxed manner; calm manner

1

insect; bug; worm; roundworm; thing inside one's body believed to influence one's thoughts and feelings; (one's) unconscious; nervousness

1

to go into mourning

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to stretch; to extend; to straighten out; to be flattened; to spread (of paint, cream, etc.); to stretch out (e.g. of a hand); to extend

2

further; even more; still more; all the more

1

feeling good; feeling pleasant

2

rudely (barging in); straight; directly; without hesitation; without permission

1

goat

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