Vocabulary Browser

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.)

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)

world tree (religious or mythological motif)

harlequin glorybower (Clerodendrum trichotomum)

Oriental butterflyfish (Chaetodon auripes)

Suika Shinto (fusion of Shinto with Chinese elements, esp. neo-Confucianism)

writing system