Vocabulary Browser

offering of flowers (at shrine, grave, etc.)

spiritual exchange

paper on which questions and comments are pasted

rice washed in cold water

within the next couple of days

land-tax rate during the Edo period, in which the government took 70 percent of the year's crop and the farmers kept 30 percent

wild dog

public assistance (i.e. assistance provided by a public body)

light, heating and water (utilities)

least significant byte

flowering dogwood (Cornus florida)

snow child (type of winter spirit)

terminal bonus

Ranunculaceae (plant family containing the crowfoot)

to feel uneasy

impression given by a painting or image

Clusiaceae (family of plants including St. John's worts and mangosteens)

Salicaceae (plant family containing willows, poplars, aspens, etc.)

silk pouch with drawstring for holding a tea caddy (tea ceremony)

Aceraceae (family of flowering plants including the maples)

fill-in (in magazines, newspapers, etc.)

punishment (of children)

United States and North Korea

to begin to catch (attention, etc.)

to fix (a time, date, etc.)

loose-flowered hornbeam (Carpinus laxiflora)

Ericaceae (heath family)

Tiliaceae (family of flowering plants, incl. the linden)

Myricaceae (wax-myrtle family)

Fabaceae (pea family of plants)