jpdb beta

to forget to put in; to leave out

1

reading partway; leaving half-read

1

small-format paperback book; pocket paperback

1

modern Japanese (esp. as a school subject)

3

supplementary reader

5

to take out; to produce; to pick out; to fetch; to retrieve

2

sprinkling (of rain, salt, etc.); pattering; flipping (through a book, etc.); riffling; sparse; scattered

2

to turn over; to turn pages of a book; to tear off; to strip off; to tear up

1

avid reader; bookworm

1

systematic

1

minute; fine; delicate; accurate; precise; elaborate

1

to reel; to wind; to turn (pages); to flip through (a book); to count (e.g. the days); to open one-by-one

2

printed matter

2

telephone book; telephone directory

1

steam iron

1

user's manual; instruction manual; operation manual

1

kind; sort; type; equal; match; peer

3

to compare; to make a comparison; to compete; to vie

4

reading matter; reading material

1

essays; miscellaneous writings; literary jottings

1

foreign country

1

author; writer; novelist; artist

5

present day; modern times; recent times; early modern period (in Japan, usu. from the Meiji Restoration until the end of World War II)

1

present age; present day; today; modern era; modern times

1

Akutagawa Ryuunosuke (1892.3.1-1927.7.24)

3

Tanizaki Jun'ichirō (1886-1965)

2

Abe Koubou (1924-1993)

1

famous; fame

1

each; respectively

5

majority; more than half; most (of); mostly; largely; mainly

1

extract; excerpt; selection

1

posing a question; question

6

as usual; as is one's habit

3

right and wrong

1

logical

1

judgement; judgment; decision; adjudication; award; verdict

3

difficult to ...; hard to ...

1

suspicious; dubious; doubtful; unsure; untrustworthy; unreliable; strange

1

to entrust (someone) with; to leave (a matter) with someone; to have someone deliver (a message, parcel, etc.); to send (through someone); to use (something) to express (one's feelings, opinion, etc.); to express in the form of (something)

1

moon; month

5

waxing and waning (of the Moon)

3

symbolic

4

effect; effectiveness; efficacy; effects (e.g. sound effects, visual effects, special effects)

2

one way or the other; either way

1

to make a mistake; to be incorrect; to be mistaken

5

to anyone; to everyone; by anyone; by everyone; in everyone; in anyone

5

comparatively; relatively

4

greatest common divisor; GCD

1

literature

1

as was expected; just as one thought; sure enough; really; actually; ever

2