Vocabulary Browser
Browse and learn Japanese words organized by JLPT level
announcing meals (at a Zen monastery)
caves dug as tombs in and around Kamakura during the Kamakura and Muromachi periods
car carrier ship
costumed mascot character (oft. devised for PR purposes by local governments, government departments, etc.)
dark bay (horse coat color)
in itself
exhaust sound
oracle
horseradish tree (Moringa oleifera)
human anatomy
autocorrelation
doctor of philosophy
system used during the Edo period where commoners had to register with a temple in order to prove their Buddhist faith
to belong to
provincial samurai in the middle ages, who engaged in agriculture in peacetime
fundamental culture (concept proposed by German folklorist Hans Naumann)
to resist
equinoctial ceremony held by the emperor at the shrine of imperial ancestors
mumbling
existence (as we perceive it) is as mutable and incorporeal as is the morning dew or a flash of lightning
maneuver to shake, flick, or wipe blood off of a sword
excluded volume effect
frame (i.e. of a sliding door)
looking worse after putting up one's hair (when coming of age)
source of radiation
experience of seeing a ghost
draft (drawing, plan, etc.)
to exhaust all one's options
turning to God only in one's trouble
genre of Heian-period Japanese court music (primarily consisting of gagaku-styled folk melodies)