Vocabulary Browser
Browse and learn Japanese words organized by JLPT level
sentry box
to fall in love (for the first time)
to use one's influence
to throw
doll used as part of a street performance (Edo period)
indisputable
great plain
main account (on social media, etc.)
room for female servants
upper air
hypothesis (formed by comparison with other similar objects)
party position
to plant oneself
to keep company
being painfully true (e.g. reprimand)
to be self-complacent
new-generation
Edo-era meat vendor (esp. of large game, e.g. deer, boar)
diligent worker
style of haikai or haiku from the Tenmei era (based on a return to the style of Basho)
sacrifice something small in order to save something great
ambulacral zone (on echinoderms)
various buddhas, bodhisattvas, deities, etc.
footprint of the Buddha carved in stone
withered trees and cold ash
young boy or girl being trained as a geisha or as a kabuki actor
poets can stay in one place and still know all the famous sights
seeing for the first time
suit your speech to the audience
tehonbiki (type of card game associated with gambling)