Nihon no Saiji Denshou – Vocabulary list

嵯さ峨が朝あさ日ひ町ちょう

Sagaasahichō

1

車くるま折ざき神じん社じゃ

Kurumazaki Shrine

1

息い吹ぶき

breath; sign (of something new and fresh); breath (of spring, fresh air, etc.); vitality

1

奥おく底そこ

depths; deep place; bottom (of one's heart)

1

北ほく欧おう

Northern Europe; Nordic countries; Scandinavia

1

キリスト教きょう

Christianity

1

習しゅう合ごう

syncretism

1

クリスマス

Christmas

1

お火ひ焚たき

Kyoto area festival held on the 11th lunar month (wherein bonfires are burned at shrines)

1

衰おとろえる

to become weak; to decline; to wear; to abate; to decay; to wither

2

北きた野の天てん満まん宮ぐう

Kitano-tenmangu (shrine in Kyoto)

1

秦しん

Qin dynasty (of China; 221-207 BCE); Ch'in dynasty

1

斎さい場じょう

funeral hall; ceremony site

1

鳴なる滝たき

Narutaki

1

大だい根こ焚たき

daikon-offering ceremony (Ryotokuji temple, Kyoto)

2

尼に僧そう

nun; priestess

1

巡じゅん錫しゃく

preaching tour

1

親しん鸞らん

Shinran (founder of the Jōdo Shinshū sect of Buddhism, 1173-1262)

1

塩しお味あじ

salty taste; saltiness

1

ジョウビタキ

Daurian redstart (Phoenicurus auroreus)

3

火ひ打うち石いし

flint; firestone

1

鳴なき声ごえ

cry (esp. animal); roar; chirp; tweet; bark; whine

2

柴さい薪しん

brushwood and firewood

1

火ひ焼たき

building a fire

2

来らい復ふく

return; coming back

2

神しん気き

qi; mysterious life force that makes up everything; spirits; mind; divine atmosphere; mysterious presence

2

気け配はい

indication; sign; hint; tone (of the market)

1

現げん代だい的てき

modernistic

1

ビル

multi-floor building; multi-storey building; bill

1

ボイラー

boiler

1

かえる

to return; to come back; to turn over; to become extremely; to become completely

1

通つうずる

to be open (to traffic); to lead to; to flow (liquid, current); to pass; to be understood; to be comprehended; to be honored

1

風か邪ぜ

(common) cold; influenza; flu; ague; inflammatory respiratory system illness (in general)

2

中ちゅう風ふう

palsy; paralysis

2

半はん身しん

half the body; half length

1

不ふ随ずい

paralysis; palsy

1

脚あし

foot; paw; leg; gait; pace; bottom structural component (i.e. radical) of a kanji; (arch.) money

2

麻ま痺ひ

paralysis; palsy; numbness; stupor

2

症しょう状じょう

symptoms; condition (of a patient)

1

半はん身しん不ふ随ずい

hemiplegia (paralysis on one side of the body)

1

脳のう卒そっ中ちゅう

stroke; cerebral haemorrhage; cerebral hemorrhage

1

回かい復ふく

restoration; rehabilitation; recovery; recovery (from an illness); recuperation; convalescence

1

難むずかしい

difficult; hard; impossible; unfeasible; fussy; particular; gloomy

1

こんにゃく

konnyaku (Amorphophallus konjac); konjac; devil's tongue; konnyaku jelly; konjac jelly; devil's tongue jelly

2

柚ゆ子ず

yuzu (Citrus ichangensis x C. reticulata)

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病やむ

to fall ill; to suffer from (e.g. a disease); to have something wrong with (e.g. an inner organ)

1

効こう力りょく

effect; efficacy; validity; potency

1

種しゅ々じゅ

various; a variety of; all kinds of; many; diverse

1

中ちゅう気き

palsy; paralysis; every second solar term (occurring in the latter half of each month)

4

節せっ気き

24 divisions of the solar year; 24 terms used to denote the changing of the seasons

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Vocabulary list: Nihon no Saiji Denshou