jpdb beta

star (actor); prima donna; leading figure

1

to float; to rise to the surface; to stand out; to be visible; to be alienated

2

old mother; aged mother

2

to address

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to fold (clothes, umbrella); to close (a shop, business); to vacate

3

family

3

in one's own way or style

3

woman; lady; adult female

8

to be worried about; to be concerned for someone's welfare

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aha!; yes sir

4

appearing ...; looking ...; way to ...; method of ...ing; form; style

1

serious illness; dangerous disease

1

imitation; fake; phony; pseudo-

2

express palanquin (esp. one carrying an urgent messenger, running day and night)

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mother

3

illness (usu. excluding minor ailments, e.g. common cold); disease; bad habit; bad behaviour; crazy; insane

7

lie; falsehood; fiction; fabrication

1

one's station in life; one's personal history; one's circumstances; one's lot; one's destiny; one's future

2

to stop (doing); to cease; to desist; to drop; to lay off; to give up

1

same text; same wording; same script; same language

2

mind

2

I; you

1

like; similar to; something like ...; someone like ...

1

self; oneself

1

separation; divorce

2

closing years of the Tokugawa shogunate and the Meiji Restoration (1850s-1860s); Bakumatsu and Meiji Restoration

2

first-class; first-rate

2

devoted husband

1

portrait

1

morning and evening; from morning until night; constantly

1

health; healthy; sound; fit

1

to pray; to say a prayer; to say grace; to wish; to hope

3

passing away; death; dying words; death poem (poem written during one's final moments)

2

thousands of years; eternity; all generations

1

to be used up; to be run out; to be exhausted; to be consumed; to come to an end

1

(imperial) reign; period

1

remains; traces; (the sorrow of) parting; end

2

(one) line; (one) row

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Shiwasuda

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eating alone; eating by oneself

1

to attract (to oneself, e.g. with bait or light); to draw close; to charm; to attract; to have a convulsion; to convulse

1

to serve (in a bowl, on a plate, etc.); to dish out; to pile up; to heap up; to administer (medicine, poison); to dose out; to put into (e.g. information in a report, meaning in a statement)

1

sitting together; the same theater (theatre); involvement; entanglement

1

bright and clear (weather, sky, etc.); perfectly (fine weather); nicely dry (laundry, air, etc.); crisply (fried, cooked, etc.); frankly; open-heartedly

3

rude; outspoken; presumptuous; cheeky

1

to eat; to drink

1

urgent business

1

seeing; looking at

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food; foodstuff; eating; appetite; meal; portion

2

liking very much; loving (something or someone); adoring; being very fond of

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