Vocabulary Browser

Grand Empress Dowager, the Empress Dowager and the Empress Consort

first and fifteenth days of the lunar month (corresponding to new moon and full moon)

kanji "cow" radical at left (radical 93)

building of a Shinto shrine complex built upon the lowest ground

Glehnia littoralis (species of umbellifer used in Chinese medicine)

small, thin fabric belt worn over the kimono and under the obi in order to protect the fabric

twelve words used to mark the old calendar as indicators of lucky and unlucky activities

kanji "moon" radical at left (usually classified as radical 130)

four beasts (tiger, leopard, black bear, and brown bear)

life jacket

to be excited

unrefined sap of the lacquer tree

"minor heat" solar term (approx. July 7)

front company (for an organized crime operation)

to be so angry that one lashes out at unrelated things

associated shrine (i.e. auxiliary shrine, subordinate shrine, etc.)

"day of the ghost" (an extremely auspicious day on the lunar calendar for everything but weddings)

no way at all to deal with

effecting de facto constitutional changes through creative interpretation of the existing constitution

"limit of heat" solar term (approx. August 23, when the weather is said to start cooling down)

(one's) step-parents

annular solar eclipse

Okinawan language

to try all possible means

crab meat mixed with vegetables and egg yolk, steamed inside its shell

bird's crest

white powder (lead carbonate) used in the past as face pigment and used in paint more recently

grain stalk radical at left (radical 115)

to raise oneself up to one's full height

to let a chance to do something slip through one's fingers