uncomfortable feeling; feeling out of place; sense of discomfort; malaise; physical unease
sum; harmony; peace; Japan; Japanese-style
Shōwa era (1926.12.25-1989.1.7); reminiscent of the Shōwa era; Shōwa- nostalgic; old-fashioned
harmony; accord; reconciliation; agreement
reconciliation; amicable settlement; court-mediated settlement; (arch.) translation of a foreign language into Japanese
gentle; mild; meek; tender
preceptor or high priest (esp. in Zen or Pure Land Buddhism); preceptor or high priest (in Tendai or Kegon Buddhism); preceptor or high priest (in Shingon, Hosso, Ritsu or Shin Buddhism); second highest priestly rank in Buddhism; monk (esp. the head monk of a temple); master (of one's art, trade, etc.)
Japanese style; light wind; moderate breeze
relief; mitigation; alleviation; relaxation (of restrictions, tensions, etc.); easing; softening
waka; classic Japanese poem, esp. a tanka, often 31 morae
Japanese food; Japanese-style meal; Japanese cuisine
wagashi; traditional Japanese confectionery
mild (climate); temperate; gentle (nature, personality, etc.); mild; moderate (statement, measure, etc.); mild
chord; "on" reading of a kanji
neutralization; neutralisation; counteraction
cheering in chorus; saying in unison
reconciliation (between warring nations); (making of) peace
reconciliation; peace; rapprochement
friction; discord; trouble; dissension; disagreement
world peace; peace of the world
harmonious; peaceful; congenial; friendly; happy
Japanese clothing; being dressed in a kimono; Japanese-style bookbinding
concord; harmony; concert
discord; dissonance; cacophony; discord (in a relationship); disagreement; disharmony
pre-established harmony (Leibniz theory); harmonie préétablie; (events) proceeding in a predictable fashion; turning out the way everyone expected; convention
peace at any price (attitude); peace idiot; peace senility; complacency about peace
peace talks; peace negotiations
peace conference; peace negotiations
Japanese-style confectionary store
Wagyu beef; Japanese beef
Wakayama (city, prefecture)
to get along; to add (one's own concordant voice, etc.)
disharmony; discord; dissonance; incongruity
Meiwa era (1764.6.2-1772.11.16)
blending of Japanese and Western styles
season when the sky is clear and the air warm (spring); first ten days of the fourth lunar month
harmony; concord; agreement; unity; union
Japan; name for Japan used in ancient China
Japanese name (often of plants and animals, and written in kana)
neutralizer; neutraliser; counteractive; antidote
Shōwa era (1312.3.20-1317.2.3)
harmony; concord; consonance
Japanese-style (esp. in reference to squat toilets)
the "wa" column of the Japanese syllabary table (wa, wi, we, wo)
Genna era (1615.7.13-1624.2.30); Genwa era
to maintain (preserve) peace
Japanese-Chinese; Japan and China
English-Japanese dictionary
Japanese, Chinese and Western (e.g. when referring to food styles available, etc.)
Tenna era (1681.9.29-1684.2.21); Tenwa era
yumi; Japanese-style bow; Japanese-style archery
Japanese Black (breed of cattle)
English-Japanese; English-Japanese dictionary
Japanese mathematics; mathematics developed in Japan
Kokin Wakashū (Heian period collection of poetry)
Emperor Shōwa (1901-1989, reigned 1926-1989); Emperor Showa; Emperor Hirohito
Wakayama prefecture (Kinki area)
Italian-Japanese (e.g. dictionary)
Shōwa restoration (call for Imperial restoration by militarists in the 1930s)
deregulation; removal (easing) of (official) restrictions; relaxation of regulations
People's Republic of China
Japanese-style bookbinding
Japanese text; sentence in Japanese
settlement; compromise settlement; settlement offer
(consensual) sexual intercourse
Shōwa period (1926-1989); Showa period
peace agreement; peace accord
Japanese language; native Japanese words (as opposed to Chinese-derived words and other foreign loanwords)
hymns of praise in Japanese
appeasement; placation; propitiation
(arch.) boy (sometimes derog.); you
Japanese-style confectionary store
peace terms; conditions of peace
Japanese word constructed of elements from one or more English terms; pseudo-English word or phrase coined in Japan; wasei eigo
Shōwa Station (Antarctica); Showa Station; Syowa Station
republican form of government
peace conference; peace talks
Kanna era (985.4.27-987.4.5); Kanwa era
Kyōwa era (1801.2.5-1804.2.11)
book bound in Japanese style
scholar of Japanese mathematics; expert of Japanese maths
following blindly; following suit without reflection
detente; easing of tensions; thaw
Japanese dressmaking; kimono making
the flourishing mid-Shōwa period (1960s and early 1970s) of peace, rapid economic growth, and life of ease
poems collected at the behest of the Emperor (from 905 to 1439); Imperial collection of poetry
Kōwa era (of the Southern Court) (1381.2.10-1384.4.28)
dictionary with Japanese definitions of kanji and kanji compounds; kanji dictionary
study of (ancient) Japanese literature and culture; Japanology; Japanese studies
to grow together; to join together (in doing something)
peace initiative; peace overture
Eiwa era (of the Northern Court) (1375.2.27-1379.3.22)
wagon; yamatogoto; six-stringed native Japanese zither
Japan's first circulated coinage (minted in 708 CE)
book in Japanese; book bound in the Japanese style
Japanese dog breed (e.g. Shiba, Akita)
traditional Japanese pattern; traditional Japanese design
to try to be reconciled (with); to take measures to bring about reconciliation
Japan–US Treaty of Peace and Amity (March 31, 1854); Convention of Kanagawa; Kanagawa Treaty; unequal treaty signed between the United States and the Tokugawa shogunate that forced Japan to end its policy of national seclusion
Democratic People's Republic of Korea (North Korea); DPRK
traditional Japanese musical instrument
Wadō era (708.1.11-715.9.2)
Japanese calendar; Japanese imperial year
modern Japanese (design or architecture); traditionally Japanese (design) in a modern form
Bunna era (of the Northern Court) (1352.9.27-1356.3.28); Bunwa era
Japanese-English dictionary
Japanese-English; Japanese-English dictionary
treaty of peace and amity; peace treaty
wokou; wakou; Japanese pirates of the Middle Ages
(traditional) Japanese style
five races under one union (Han, Manchurians, Mongolians, Hui, Tibetans; founding principle of the Republic of China); harmony of the five races (Manchurians, Han, Mongolians, Koreans, Japanese; official policy of Manchukuo)
Democratic Republic of the Congo
Japan, China and the West; Japanese, Chinese and Western learning
English-Japanese translation
traditional Japanese medicine; Japanese folk medicine
Wamyōruijushō (famous Heian-period Japanese dictionary)
Paris Peace Conference (1919); Versailles Peace Conference
history of the Shōwa period (1926-1989)
wakame (species of edible brown seaweed, Undaria pinnatifida)
clocks made in Japan, mainly in the Edo period; clocks that tell Japanese time
Japanese-style squat toilet
Japanese-English dictionary
gentle mutual affection; harmony; harmony
Yōwa era (1181.7.14-1182.5.27)
wagoto; love scene; style of acting for love stories
social integration (esp. of burakumin); assimilation; burakumin
Shōwa Day (national holiday; April 29); Showa Day
German Democratic Republic (i.e. former East Germany)
pacifist constitution (often applied to the Japanese constitution); constitution which outlaws use of arms
Boxer Rebellion (1899-1901); Boxer Uprising; Yihetuan Movement
Jōwa era (834.1.3-848.6.13); Shōwa era
Japanese-style desk (short, used while sitting on the floor)
palliative medicine; palliative therapy; palliative treatment; palliative care
polyunsaturated fatty acid
harmony, respect, purity and tranquility; the four most important elements of the tea ceremony
the harmony of yin and yang energies
book bound in the traditional Japanese style
Japanese-English translation
Japanese-Latin (e.g. dictionary)
Ōwa era (961.2.16-964.7.10)
pacifism; pacifist thought
with a gentle face and a nice word
to get along well together; to be in tune with one another; to harmonize with each other; to go well together
traditional Japanese colours (colors); addition color
harmonious cooperation; close cooperation
harmonious cooperation; close cooperation
China and Japan; Chinese and Japanese (languages); dictionary with Japanese definitions of kanji and kanji compounds; kanji dictionary
Japanese reading of a Chinese character
native Japanese characters (i.e. hiragana and katakana); kana; kanji created in Japan (as opposed to China); Japanese-made kanji
Japanese-style ritual saddle
Japanese-made thing; Japanese goods; Japanese style thing
harmonize but not agree (harmonise)
Union of Soviet Socialist Republics; USSR; Soviet Union
Republic of the Philippines
Federal Republic of Germany (former West Germany)
pair of persons (especially a married couple) being intimate and harmonious; being happily married
Shōwa Depression (Japanese part of the Great Depression)
French-Japanese dictionary
Anna era (968.8.13-970.3.25); Anwa era
Russia and Japan; Russian-Japanese
touch of Japanese; tinge of Japanese; Japanese flavour (flavor); Japanese style (e.g. of kanbun writing, in contrast to actual Chinese)
Japanese wakin goldfish variety
mixed writing of literary Japanese and Chinese
the Japanese spirit imbued with Chinese learning
traditional Japanese medicine
mingling with the world by hiding one's true talent or knowledge; living a quiet life by effacing oneself
anharmonic; non-harmonic; discordant
hotel room with both Western and Japanese elements (usu. with Western-style beds and a separate tatami-floored living area)
Treaty of San Francisco; Treaty of Peace with Japan (Sept. 8, 1951)
Japanese spirit with Western learning
traditional Japanese alcohol (primarily sake, but also shōchū and fruit wine)
(generation born in) the first nine years of the Shōwa period (1926-1934)
Dai Kanwa Jiten (major Kanji Dictionary, edited by Morohashi Tetsuji)
Chōwa era (1012.12.25-1017.4.23)
disjunction; logical sum; logical add; OR operation
Socialist Republic of Vietnam
wayō gassō; mixed orchestra using Japanese and Western instruments
Japanese Black (breed of cattle)
Japan and Russia; Japanese-Russian
Japanese and Chinese medicine; oriental medicine
German-Japanese dictionary
Jōwa era (of the Northern Court) (1345.10.21-1350.2.27); Teiwa era
scholar of (ancient) Japanese literature and culture
discord and hostility; feud
Hellenic Republic (Greece)
to be happily married; (lit.) to go together like two zithers
Japanese-German (e.g. dictionary)
Japanese-French (e.g. dictionary)
U-shaped scissors with no place to put one's fingers
traditional Japanese wedding
French-Japanese (e.g. dictionary)
partial sum (of a sequence)
partial relaxation; partial easing
saturation vapor; saturation vapour
peace accord; peace agreement
United Republic of Tanzania
assimilation district; area targeted for antidiscrimination measures; burakumin area
Republic of Equatorial Guinea
Japanese style restaurant; Japanese style dining hall
Kyrgyz Republic (Kyrgyzstan)
Islamic republic (Iran, Pakistan, Afghanistan, Mauritania)
Federative Republic of Brazil
peacelessness; lacking social peace
Japanese word constructed of elements from foreign languages
Japanese Brown (cattle breed)
Kōwa era (1099.8.28-1104.2.10)
Japanese-style oblong, open end envelope
Japanese-German dictionary
alleviation of congestion (esp. traffic)
Latin-Japanese (e.g. dictionary)
Edo-period realm of the Japanese (as opposed to the Ainu) in southern Hokkaido
People's Republic of Bangladesh
people's democratic republic
People's Democratic Republic of Algeria
Lao People's Democratic Republic
air conditioning unit; AC unit; air conditioner
people's socialist republic
heat of neutralization (neutralisation)
delivery with little pain (i.e. use of pain-reducing drugs)
(inclusive) OR gate; (inclusive) OR element
supersaturated vapor; supersaturated vapour
participating in something by merely following the leaders
EXCLUSIVE-OR gate; EXCLUSIVE-OR element
literary style from the Heian era onwards, often mainly in kana and written by women
autonomous soviet socialist republic; ASSR
Oriental Republic of Uruguay
World Conference of Religions for Peace
Treaty of Peace with Japan; Treaty of San Francisco (Sept. 8, 1951)
international peace cooperation
international peace activity
Japanese hymn praising the coming of the Buddha (thought to be written by Minamoto No Makoto)
social integration education; education to eliminate discrimination (e.g. against burakumin)
Treaty of Shimoda (1855); treaty initiating official relations between Russia and Japan
Co-operative Republic of Guyana
soviet socialist republic; SSR
(former) Georgian Soviet Socialist Republic; Georgian SSR; GSSR
non-disjunction; NOR operation; NEITHER-NOR operation
association of overseas Japanese merchants
Democratic Socialist Republic of Sri Lanka
non-equivalence operation; EXCLUSIVE-OR operation
augmented chord; augmented triad
Republic of Guinea-Bissau
Islamic Republic of Afghanistan
Co-operative Republic of Guyana
Republic of Côte d'Ivoire (Ivory Coast)
Republic of Niger; Republic of the Niger
Islamic Republic of Pakistan
diminished chord; diminished triad
Democratic Republic of Sao Tome and Principe
tray of traditional Japanese food
Federal Republic of Somalia
Federal Republic of Nigeria
Republic of the Union of Myanmar
Federation of Arab Republics
Federal Democratic Republic of Ethiopia
Federal Democratic Republic of Nepal
Democratic Republic of Timor-Leste (East Timor)
Republic of North Macedonia
movement to end discrimination against Burakumin
being of a gentle disposition; being of a mild character
non-disjunction; NOR operation; NEITHER-NOR operation
kimono maker; kimono tailor
Republic of the Marshall Islands
waon therapy; soothing warmth therapy
Japanese typewriter; typewriter that can type using Japanese characters
conjugal harmony; concord between husband and wife
anharmonic ratio; cross ratio
Kyōwa-go; Japanese-based pidgin language spoken in Manchukuo
Reiwa fever; elated national mood around the start of the Reiwa era
Japanese production; Japanese product
Japanese word constructed from Sino-Japanese elements; wasei kango
thick Japanese paper resembling Chinese paper (from late Edo period onward)
branch of ancient Japanese magic tricks inherited mainly from oral tradition
traditional Japanese steel (e.g. used in swords)
Japanese person living and working abroad (esp. in Asia as a business person)
Russian-Japanese dictionary
Japanese-Russian dictionary
Japanese-French dictionary
Sanskrit-Japanese dictionary
wasabi (Wasabia japonica); Japanese horseradish
Japanese bird cherry (Prunus grayana); Gray's bird cherry; Gray's chokecherry
Bonin flying fox (Pteropus pselaphon)
Chinese apple (Malus asiatica)
son of a person of high social standing
Shōwachō Station (Kagawa)