Vocabulary Browser
Browse and learn Japanese words organized by JLPT level
secretary (lowest of the four administrative ranks of the ritsuryō system)
unhurriedly
Nihon Kōki (third of the six classical Japanese history texts)
three monastic positions with management roles at a temple
Japanese bigleaf magnolia bark (used in Chinese medicine)
folk beliefs
Purple Forbidden Enclosure (group of constellations in the northern sky associated with the emperor)
subjunctive past perfect
I beg your pardon
Ise Shinto (school of Shinto established the Watarai family priests of Ise Jingu's Outer Shrine)
type of taro originally from Sulawesi
Chinese "Hairy Head" constellation (one of the 28 mansions)
core city (administrative division for cities with a population of over 300,000)
harlequin glorybower (Clerodendrum trichotomum)
Oriental butterflyfish (Chaetodon auripes)
Suika Shinto (fusion of Shinto with Chinese elements, esp. neo-Confucianism)
writing system
Purple Forbidden Enclosure (group of constellations in the northern sky associated with the emperor)
round leaved primula (Primula obconica)
as is
to commit a crime
photography event
space between two nodes (on bamboo, etc.)
(having an) overactive imagination
Department of State Affairs (Tang dynasty China)
preeminence
to hit a nerve
Chinese "Extended Net" constellation (one of the 28 mansions)
five punishments (of ancient China: tattooing, cutting off the nose, cutting off a leg, castration or confinement, death)
phrasal verb