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Browse and learn Japanese words organized by JLPT level
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
hot water (esp. cold mineral spring water heated up at the right temperature for bathing)
ladies' pavilion (of Heian Palace)
mud wall with a roof
tatami mat with a wooden plank for a core (used in tokonoma, etc.)
everyday robes worn by males of the imperial family, nobility, etc. (from the Heian period onward)
area of the Edo castle where the shogun would work and spend his daily life
third climate of spring (when the ice breaks and fish start appearing near the surface)
sign used to designate a hot spring (e.g. on a map)
technology association
sweet (voice, fragrance, etc.)
to become experienced (after many years of practice)
eighth lunar month
one of the six administrators of a Zen temple
celebration for the completion of a project
rowdy fellow
eave
literary magazine