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Browse and learn Japanese words organized by JLPT level
to pay attention (to)
travellers' inn
palace workshop responsible for making furnishings, etc. (Heian period)
eleventh lunar month
Democratic Republic of Timor-Leste (East Timor)
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
employer (esp. of a geisha, prostitute, etc.)
face of someone while still alive
small boat used for transport on rivers (Edo period)
to be sensitive to smoke
palace kitchen in which final preparations to the imperial family's meals (e.g. reheating) were made (Heian period)
to die
to be attentive to
fine white noodles served flowing in a small flume
even more
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)
crime for which one's three types of relatives will be punished
maid in an Osaka brothel
procedural law
sign used to designate a hot spring (e.g. on a map)
sweet (voice, fragrance, etc.)
specified CFCs
third lunar month
first market of the year
coming and going