Vocabulary Browser

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

source of infection

exemption from military service

offering (to a shogun, emperor, daimyo, kami or Buddha)

message appended to a note accompanying a gift, requesting the recipient to keep the gift at hand

triumphant

stretching out (in a longitudinal direction)

tiqin (2 or 4-stringed Chinese instrument played with a bow)

winner of Japan's three main horse races

win an election due to another's death or disqualification

quickly prepared meal or dish

string-fastener

vegetables pickled in salted rice-bran paste

field cap (used by Japanese troops in WWII)

very auspicious day for all types of occasions (one of the six special days in the Japanese lunisolar calendar)

ray gun (in science fiction)

Japanese puppet theatre in which recited narrative and dialog is accompanied by a shamisen (forerunner of bunraku)

electoral quota (e.g. in a proportional representation system)

crest-decorated habutae (silk fabric used as a cloth for lining high-quality kimono)

homophony (having the same pronunciation as another word but a different meaning)

manufacturing industry

introduction, development, turn and conclusion (quadripartite structure of certain Chinese poetry)

hairstyle of Meiji and Taisho era, featuring a bun resembling a halved peach