Vocabulary Browser

core city (administrative division for cities with a population of over 300,000)

world tree (religious or mythological motif)

harlequin glorybower (Clerodendrum trichotomum)

Oriental butterflyfish (Chaetodon auripes)

Suika Shinto (fusion of Shinto with Chinese elements, esp. neo-Confucianism)

writing system

Purple Forbidden Enclosure (group of constellations in the northern sky associated with the emperor)

round leaved primula (Primula obconica)

as is

to commit a crime

photography event

space between two nodes (on bamboo, etc.)

(having an) overactive imagination

Department of State Affairs (Tang dynasty China)

preeminence

to hit a nerve

Chinese "Extended Net" constellation (one of the 28 mansions)

five punishments (of ancient China: tattooing, cutting off the nose, cutting off a leg, castration or confinement, death)

phrasal verb

cannot be avoided (of a problem, etc.)

slow-paced style of shamisen music with vocal accompaniment (popular during the late Edo period)

incense clock (marks time with a smouldering train of incense)

homograph

minuteness

incense clock

consecutive interpretation

tolerant

signboard depicting scene from a play (usu. outside a theatre)

Ministry of Personnel (Tang dynasty China)

third person singular present