Nihon Bungaku no Hassei Josetsu – Vocabulary list

三み河かわ

Mikawa (former province located in the east of present-day Aichi Prefecture)

1

鳳ほう

feng (male Chinese firebird)

1

地じ狂きょう言げん

local amateur theatrical performance (esp. popular in late Edo and early Meiji)

1

三さん回かい

three times

5

智ち

wisdom; jnana (higher knowledge)

1

窪くぼ

hollow; cavity; sunken place; (arch.) vagina; (arch.) female genitalia

1

大たい山ざん

great mountain; large mountain

1

大おお山やま

big gamble; big plunge; big mountain

1

壬じん

9th in rank; ninth sign of the Chinese calendar

1

念ねん仏ぶつ

nembutsu; nenbutsu; nianfo; visualizing a Buddha (in one's mind)

1

能の登と半はん島とう

Noto Peninsula (Ishikawa Prefecture)

2

訪おとなう

to visit; (arch.) (original meaning) to make a noise

2

岬みさき

cape (on coast)

1

古こ今きん和わ歌か集しゅう

Kokin Wakashū (Heian period collection of poetry)

1

楽がく堂どう

Gakudou

1

最さい終しゅう

last; final; closing; last train (bus, flight, etc.; of the day)

1

芥あくた川がわ龍りゅう之の介すけ

Akutagawa Ryuunosuke (1892.3.1-1927.7.24)

1

自じ死し

suicide; apoptosis

1

死し生せい観かん

one's opinion on (life and) death

1

一いっ端たん

one end; an end; part; fragment

1

鷽うそ

Eurasian bullfinch (Pyrrhula pyrrhula); Japanese bullfinch

2

山やま姥うば

mountain witch; yamauba

1

開かい講こう

start of a course; start of lectures; opening of a new course; offering a course (for the first time)

2

長ちょう兄けい

eldest brother

1

荏え

egoma (type of perilla); Perilla frutescens var. frutescens

1

原ばら

suffixed to words indicating a class of people to create a plural (esp. in impolite contexts)

1

東とう京きょう市し

Tokyo City

1

二に階かい建だて

two-storied building

1

没ぼつ年ねん

year of a person's death; one's age at death

3

北きた設した楽ら郡ぐん豊とよ根ね村むら

Kitashitaraguntoyonemura

1

山さん内ない

in the mountains; within the grounds of a temple

1

実じつ演えん

demonstration; presentation; stage show; performance

2

講こう堂どう

auditorium; lecture hall

3

ＯオーＡエー

office automation; OA

7

即そく位い式しき

enthronement ceremony; coronation

1

放ほう送そう

broadcasting; broadcast; program; announcement

7

初しょ旬じゅん

first 10 days of the month

1

口くち絵え

illustration appearing in the first pages of a publication; frontispiece

1

写しゃ真しん

photograph; photo; picture; moving picture; movie

1

撮さつ影えい

photography (still or motion); photographing; filming; shooting; (video) recording

1

雛ひな祭まつり

Hinamatsuri (March 3); Girls' Festival; Dolls' Festival

1

哺ほ

holding food in one's mouth; food held in one's mouth

1

温おん泉せん

hot spring; onsen; hot spring resort; hot spring spa

1

中ちゅう旬じゅん

middle of a month; second third of a month; 11th to 20th day of a month

3

王おう家け

royal family

1

村むら芝しば居い

play put on in a village; play put on by villagers

1

劇げき

drama; play; powerful drug

1

病びょう気き

illness (usu. excluding minor ailments, e.g. common cold); disease; bad habit; bad behaviour; crazy; insane

1

中ちゅう止し

suspension; stoppage; discontinuance; interruption

1

信しな濃の

Shinano (former province located in present-day Nagano Prefecture and parts of Gifu Prefecture)

1

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Vocabulary list: Nihon Bungaku no Hassei Josetsu