Vocabulary Browser
Browse and learn Japanese words organized by JLPT level
urethane resin
three days' march (approx. 36.5 km)
most important provincial shrine
Imiki (fourth highest of the eight hereditary titles)
homophony (having the same pronunciation as another word but a different written form)
sarugaku (form of theatre popular in Japan during the 11th to 14th centuries)
to lose one's footing
black rockfish (Sebastes inermis)
number of blows (used in measuring the bpm of an air hammer, etc.)
mirror
Toyouke Shrine (the outer shrine of Ise Shrine)
scratch-resistant
revisionist (person who takes a revisionist view of history)
to catch off guard
type of taro originally from Sulawesi, has large tubers with red eyes
pre-Qin period (of China)
absolutely every little bit
requirement
dazaifu (under the ritsuryō system, governmental office with jurisdiction over Kyushu, Iki and Tsushima)
gold-ribbon grouper (species of fish, Aulacocephalus temmincki)
thinly cut hemp or paper mixed with rice (scattered as an offering to the gods)
kagura flute (six-holed horizontal flute)
recommended dietary allowance
Jingu-kyo (sect of Shinto, dissolved in 1899)
Chinese "Legs" constellation (one of the 28 mansions)
Shoku Nihon Kōki (fourth of the six classical Japanese history texts)
natural moisturizing factor
fixed-interval transfer ceremony (wherein a shrine's sacred object is transferred to a newly constructed main hall)
excerpt
ancient clan record (incl. their origins, their achievements, etc.)