jpdb beta

hot water; hot bath; hot spring; molten iron

17

to provide; to arrange; to install

3

oneself; oneself; for oneself; personally

3

tea (usu. green); tea break (at work); tea ceremony

7

to make tea (matcha); to perform the tea ceremony

2

early morning

5

high and low (social standing)

3

to eat

1

swallowing a great amount of tea or medicine; tea prepared for the New Year with the first water of the year

1

spiced sake (served at New Year's)

1

alcohol; sake

14

to advance; to go forward; to precede; to go ahead (of); to make progress; to improve; to deepen

10

shop; store; somebody who sells (something) or works as (something); somebody with a (certain) personality trait; house; roof

14

middle-age; middle age; midlife; one's middle years

1

profit; earnings

1

New Year's Week (festivities)

5

lucky tea (var. of tea made from sea tangle, black soybeans, pepper, pickled plums, etc. and drunk on festive occasions); New Year tea

2

Yajuurou

1

seven; seven years of age; four o'clock (old time system)

1

morning; a.m.

7

bathroom; (arch.) bathing; (arch.) bathing attendant (for a noble)

2

body; physical system; (the) person

1

cold-water ablutions

5

water for washing or moistening one's hands

2

gargling; rinsing one's mouth

1

dyeing; printing; blue and white ceramics (china, porcelain)

1

green tea; green leaf tea; non-powdered tea (as opposed to matcha); medium-grade green tea

2

tea whisk; bamboo whisk for making Japanese tea; hair style where the hair is tied up in a bundle on the back of the head (resembling the shape of a tea whisk)

2

almost; roughly; approximately

21

the same age; same period

1

large; big; older; senior; final; ultimate

29

samurai costume; old ceremonial costume

3

full dress; formal dress; uniform

1

eboshi; black-lacquered headgear (made of silk, cloth or paper) originally worn by court nobles in ancient Japan

2

to put on (one's head); to wear; to be covered with (dust, snow, etc.); to pour (water, etc.) on oneself; to bear (e.g. someone's debts, faults, etc.); to take (blame); to overlap (e.g. sound or color)

10

instead of; in place of; as a substitute for; in exchange for; in return for; to make up for

1

chicken (Gallus gallus domesticus); domestic chicken; chicken meat

1

to tell; to inform; to announce; to indicate; to signal; to mark

3

to face; to go towards; to head towards

22

Hiroshima prefecture (Chūgoku area)

29

New Year's morning

1

early dawn; grey of morning; gray of morning

4

great fortune; good luck; rice cake stuffed with bean jam

1

kaki; Japanese persimmon (Diospyros kaki)

6

Wakayama (city)

5

man; male; fellow; guy; male lover; boyfriend

11

spacious; vast; wide

24

looking; viewing; (please) try (to)

8

definiteness; certainty

1

Genroku era (1688.9.30-1704.3.13)

9