Vocabulary Browser

hardworking

confirmation of someone's safety

blank email (e.g. for signing up to an email list)

death by laughter

drug development

round of ghost stories (trad. at night with a lamp or candle being extinguished after each story)

abdication of an emperor (before demise)

sky pattern on a calm and clear day of spring

electronics industry

air traffic controller

oldest architectural style for Shinto shrines (e.g. used at Izumo shrine)

soup with fried tofu, shiitake mushrooms, carrots, sweet potatoes and daikon flavored with salt or soy sauce and thickened with potato starch

swallowing a great amount of tea or medicine

Tōhoku harvest divination event (14th night of the New Year)

Japanese traditional architectural structure, where the building has its main entrance on the side which runs parallel to the roof's ridge

strategy meeting

five cardinal sins (killing one's father, killing one's mother, killing an arhat, shedding the blood of a Buddha, causing a schism within the sangha)

conduit line

drinking spring water

to cast amorous glances at a man (of a woman)

employment agency

New Year food for entertaining a guest served in multilayered lacquered boxes

brown tree snake (Boiga irregularis)

to be upside-down

female delinquent

Off-Mountain School (of Song-period Tiantai Buddhism)

Japanese traditional architectural style where the main entrance is on one or both of the gabled sides

group of persons working at the imperial court (Yamato period)

blackening solution

dictionary of seasonal words (for haiku and haikai)