Vocabulary Browser
Browse and learn Japanese words organized by JLPT level
albatross (esp. the short-tailed albatross, Phoebastria albatrus)
going on one's own or one's own way
gibbon (any small, long-armed ape of family Hylobatidae)
proportional representation electoral system (in which party votes are cast, and candidates from each party are elected based on an ordered list available to the public)
referral to a committee
hereditary daimyo whose ancestors supported Tokugawa Ieyasu prior to the battle of Sekigahara
artless but attractive in a quaint sense
documentary examination
Japanese religious census used to repress Christians (Edo period)
votive lantern in a shrine or temple
(female) private nurse
decorating shrines and gates with shimenawa ropes for the New Year
betraying one's lord (and going over to the enemy)
member of an entourage or retinue or party
tatami "box seat" for four people at sumo, kabuki, etc.
pocket mirror
to shiver
a self-supporting accounting system
an anti-corrosive (agent)
residential building in which the first floor is occupied by businesses
(the Christian sacrament of) confirmation
source of infection
exemption from military service
offering (to a shogun, emperor, daimyo, kami or Buddha)
message appended to a note accompanying a gift, requesting the recipient to keep the gift at hand
triumphant
stretching out (in a longitudinal direction)
tiqin (2 or 4-stringed Chinese instrument played with a bow)
winner of Japan's three main horse races
win an election due to another's death or disqualification