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Browse and learn Japanese words organized by JLPT level
schist
rival candidate
distemper painting
main southern gate (of a temple, castle town, etc.)
sick soldier
Blood Pond
person at a public bath in charge of heating the water and filling the baths
soda-lime-silica glass
ill-preparedness
building for observing horse racing, horseback archery, etc. (sometimes specifically that used by the emperor on the greater palace grounds)
wooden transport ship used on Lake Biwa
national census
method of dyeing, developed in Okinawa, in which a single stencil is used to produce richly polychromatic designs
monopoly system
to be frightened
type of brothel in Yoshiwara (Edo period)
pompadour-like hair style, popular for unmarried women in the Edo period
billeting area
to spread
pressing forward without giving a chance to explain
private land
love romance
rice-bran bag (used for scrubbing the skin when bathing)
men's hairstyle with small sideburns and a wide forehead (Edo period)
Kyoto's children
pavilion housing the sacred mirror (in Heian Palace)
Fronde (series of French civil wars; 1648-1653)
plowing right after the autumn harvest
washing clothes at night (during the height of the summer)
chief navigator