Vocabulary Browser
Browse and learn Japanese words organized by JLPT level
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
cannot be avoided (of a problem, etc.)
slow-paced style of shamisen music with vocal accompaniment (popular during the late Edo period)
incense clock (marks time with a smouldering train of incense)
homograph
minuteness
incense clock
consecutive interpretation