Vocabulary Browser

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

tolerant

signboard depicting scene from a play (usu. outside a theatre)

Ministry of Personnel (Tang dynasty China)

third person singular present

to shake one's head

to punish (esp. with death)

grains of sand on the beach (i.e. something countless)

office (government department beneath a bureau under the ritsuryō system)

Minister of Works (Zhou dynasty China)

adverbial clause