Vocabulary Browser

soil amelioration

Okinawan time (i.e. a relaxed attitude to punctuality sometimes ascribed to Okinawans)

augite

small pondweed (Potamogeton pusillus)

Settsu (former province located in the northern and central parts of present-day Osaka and the southeast of Hyogo prefectures)

springtime repairing of fences after winter damage

spring frost

fruitarianism

outer edge of the foot (from little toe to heel) (karate)

blowout (oil well, gas field, etc.)

60th birthday celebration (usu. celebrated with a banquet-style meal while dressed in a red hat and vest symbolizing one's return to infancy)

southerly wind that blows when the cherry trees are in bloom

cardboard spinning top, shaped and coloured like a flower

outing in spring

calf (before it is fattened or used for breeding, usu. referring to 6 to 12-month-olds)

provisional translation

preliminary boiling (of hard-to-cook ingredients)

hedenbergite

vasomotor rhinitis

spore-bearing plant

facing one's opponent head-on and winning via overwhelmingly superior strength or skill

plainclothes police officer

Prunus kanzakura (species of winter-blooming cherry tree)

scratch

marriage in which the bride is taken into the groom's family

to bring to an end

acting shugo (Kamakura or Muromachi period military governor)

Invasion of Ryukyu (by the Satsuma-based Shimazu clan; 1609)

General Headquarters, Supreme Commander for the Allied Powers (1945-1952)

spade-toothed whale (Mesoplodon traversii)