Vocabulary Browser

bamboo garden

building dock (e.g. for ships)

first day of the equinoctial week

re-thatching

visitor (to a shrine or temple)

to sleep together (for a man and a woman)

large bathhouse

fishing and agricultural village

Mohs' hardness

Musashi (former province located in parts of present-day Tokyo, Kanagawa and Saitama prefectures)

algodonite

small mammal

leaving water in the bathtub (to use later for laundry)

melilite

bournonite

town built within the semi-fortified compounds of a temple (during the Warring States period)

double width (of cloth; usu. 1.42 meters)

shortening a vowel

United States Military Government of the Ryukyu Islands (1945-1950)

single width (of cloth; usu. 0.71 meters)

letter-post items

to plant

to draw a line (between)

freak wave

dry skin

to feel relieved

native copper

outer layer (e.g. of skin)

emmer wheat (Triticum dicoccum)

various temples