jpdb beta

to wish (for); to pray (for); to hope (for); to pray silently; to recite (Buddha's name, sutras, etc.) in one's mind; to chant (a silent prayer)

2

vague recollection; faint memory

1

exceptional item; extraordinary product

1

cause; origin

1

timewise; temporal; chronal

1

general statement; outline

1

description; account

1

to value; to prize; to esteem; to respect

1

millennium; one thousand years; (fig.) long time

3

divine beast

2

historical event; ancient event; tradition; folklore; legend

1

lineage; stock; descent; strain; blood relationship

1

scattering; diffusion; spread (e.g. signal across the spectrum)

2

ruling class

1

to play with (a toy, one's hair, etc.); to fiddle with; to toy with (one's emotions, etc.); to trifle with; to do with something as one pleases; to appreciate

3

to meet; to meet up; to rendezvous; to join (of roads, rivers, etc.); to flow together

1

basis for decision; evidence for judging

1

(coming to a) mutual understanding; understanding each other

1

import; importation; introduction; afferent

1

wooden floor; room with a wooden floor; changing room (at a public bath)

1

to lie down; to throw oneself down

1

tabi; Japanese socks (with split toe)

1

to put on (lower-body clothing, e.g. pants, skirt, footwear); to wear; to affix (a sword to one's hip); (arch.) to affix (a bowstring to a bow)

2

graceful; neat

1

to poke one's nose into another's affairs; to have a hand in; to take a (deep) interest in; to poke one's head (into a room)

1

passionate; fervent; affecting; moving; touching

1

tragic but brave; heroic; grim; pathetic

1

joint; seam

1

to open (e.g. one's robe); to bare (e.g. one's chest); to open up (of clothing); to be exposed; (arch.) to open wide (one's legs, eyes, mouth, etc.); (arch.) to stretch

2

to turn one's back on; to be uninterested in

2

tattoo (esp. a traditional Japanese one); tattooing

6

breast; udder

2

staringly; fixedly; unblinkingly

1

ancestral spirit; collective of ancestral spirits which have lost their individualities; ancestor deified as a kami; spirit of a kami

2

foreigner; stranger; gentile; goy

2

science; learning; scholarship; arts and sciences; academic pursuits

2

imaginary

2

(musical) time; tempo; beat; the moment; the instance; chance

2

bathing (in a lake, river, or in the sea); playing in the water; playing with water

2

hard to do

1

to coil around; to follow about; to be related to; to concern; to be associated with

1

settlement; permanent residency

1

to show respect for; to revere; to honour; to honor; to worship; to hold in esteem

3

escape; flight; running away; elopement; fleeing

1

breakdown; rupture

1

to commit suicide; to end one's life; (lit.) to choose death

1

dying in vain; useless death; meaningless death

1

sad; miserable; unhappy; sad; lamentable; deplorable

3

(being beholden to someone for a favor of) a night's lodging and a meal

1

two copies

1