Vocabulary Browser

to boil water

central government ministries and agencies

the four northern islands (held by Russia)

welcome (new year, new spring, etc.)

buying the services of a prostitute

coolness of autumn

graduate-school graduate

teleosts

Tsuchimikado Shinto (synthesis of Shinto and Onmyōdō formulated by Yasutomi Tsuchimikado in the mid-Edo period)

sleeveless ceremonial robe for samurai (replacing the Muromachi-period suō)

geological structure

inubō karuta (type of iroha karuta originating in Edo)

toothed top shell (Monodonta labio)

Bouin fixation

public bath located in a city or town

to raise a girl is costlier than one would expect (like how a small bag can hold more than it seems)

downstage right pillar (on a noh stage) used as a positioning guidepost for actors

engraver

prick test

Cowper's fluid

canonical quantization

first wholesale produce market of the year (usu. auction of seafood, fruit, etc.)

strongest ever

children's park

parliamentary secretary

ignorance of Jōdo Shinshū practitioners (who only chant the Namu Amida Butsu and have little knowledge of other parts of Buddhism)

language island

to pulverize

extremely dangerous

direct free kick (soccer)