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Browse and learn Japanese words organized by JLPT level
base pair
streamers (made of linen, paper, etc.) attached to a long pole (used as a wand in grand purification ceremonies)
Feast of the Seven Herbs of Health (one of the five seasonal festivals; celebrated on the seventh day of the seventh month in the lunar calendar)
of the land
small purification wand
latent variable (e.g. in statistics)
urethane resin
three days' march (approx. 36.5 km)
most important provincial shrine
Imiki (fourth highest of the eight hereditary titles)
homophony (having the same pronunciation as another word but a different written form)
sarugaku (form of theatre popular in Japan during the 11th to 14th centuries)
to lose one's footing
black rockfish (Sebastes inermis)
number of blows (used in measuring the bpm of an air hammer, etc.)
mirror
Toyouke Shrine (the outer shrine of Ise Shrine)
scratch-resistant
revisionist (person who takes a revisionist view of history)
to catch off guard
type of taro originally from Sulawesi, has large tubers with red eyes
pre-Qin period (of China)
absolutely every little bit
requirement
dazaifu (under the ritsuryō system, governmental office with jurisdiction over Kyushu, Iki and Tsushima)
gold-ribbon grouper (species of fish, Aulacocephalus temmincki)
thinly cut hemp or paper mixed with rice (scattered as an offering to the gods)
kagura flute (six-holed horizontal flute)
recommended dietary allowance
Jingu-kyo (sect of Shinto, dissolved in 1899)