Vocabulary Browser

to look closely

roadside prohibition-edict boards

to fit into (a box, frame, category, etc.)

Ashikaga period (i.e. Muromachi period; 1336-1573)

to shake (from fear, cold, excitement, etc.)

passing university entrance exams in the last year of high school (instead of failing then taking gap year(s))

burying

embarrassing

wildly different (in ability, strength, etc.)

being used to people (e.g. of a young child)

to consist of

region on Japan Sea side of Japan west of Tokyo

going to the capital (esp. of a samurai or daimyo during the Edo period)

to fire (from a job)

biomechanics

self-sufficiency

close associate

hand, foot and mouth disease

value

private parts

in calligraphy, an abbreviated or mistaken form of a character, or a work written in more than one calligraphic style

landslide

state-sponsored temples, particularly those favored and protected by the shogunate during the Kamakura period

large drop (of rain, sweat, tears, etc.)

texture

tea ceremony

Kshitigarbha (bodhisattva who looks over children, travellers and the underworld)

to poke fun at

shame

hair dyed brown