Vocabulary Browser

Twenty-Four Histories

warm sake (formerly drunk on the 9th day of the 9th month of the lunar calendar to ward off illness)

paua (edible New Zealand abalone; species Haliotis iris, H. australis, H. virginea)

staying somewhere cheaply

to blow and gather together (by the wind)

Mariology

country bumpkin

courtesy car (e.g. at a hotel)

keepsake

to scream

being raised in a town

flying fish roe

nothing special

to spread money around (e.g. to give, to loan, to invest, etc.)

year-end bonus

cloudy sky that appears when the migrating birds that stayed for winter and autumn in Japan leave to go north

sliced abalone served in cold water

moving average (line)

to sacrifice something small in order to save something great

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)