Vocabulary Browser

main road

failed attempt (at a crime, suicide, etc.)

simplified receipt with a blank line to be filled out with the customer's name (used specifically for claiming expenses)

(not even) for a moment

rapid succession (e.g. questions)

execute by shooting to death (by firing squad)

physical examination (given at conscription)

spiny lobster (esp. Japanese spiny lobster, Panulirus japonicus)

rope used to cordon off consecrated areas or as a talisman against evil

point-blank range

albatross (esp. the short-tailed albatross, Phoebastria albatrus)

going on one's own or one's own way

gibbon (any small, long-armed ape of family Hylobatidae)

proportional representation electoral system (in which party votes are cast, and candidates from each party are elected based on an ordered list available to the public)

referral to a committee

hereditary daimyo whose ancestors supported Tokugawa Ieyasu prior to the battle of Sekigahara

artless but attractive in a quaint sense

documentary examination

Japanese religious census used to repress Christians (Edo period)

votive lantern in a shrine or temple

(female) private nurse

decorating shrines and gates with shimenawa ropes for the New Year

betraying one's lord (and going over to the enemy)

member of an entourage or retinue or party

tatami "box seat" for four people at sumo, kabuki, etc.

pocket mirror

a self-supporting accounting system

an anti-corrosive (agent)

residential building in which the first floor is occupied by businesses

(the Christian sacrament of) confirmation