Japanese Vocabulary

Allyson W. (United States of America)
I am a Japanese kind of girl so why not try to figure out what some of those words are
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  1. geta
    footwear usually with wooden soles
  2. haiku
    an epigrammatic Japanese verse form of three short lines
  3. bonsai
    a dwarfed ornamental tree or shrub grown in a tray or shallow pot
  4. Kakemono
    a Japanese wall hanging
  5. karaoke
    singing popular songs accompanied by a recording
  6. koto
    Japanese stringed instrument that resembles a zither
  7. origami
    the art of folding paper
  8. shamisen
    a Japanese stringed instrument
  9. tanka
    a Japanese verse form of 5 lines with 5 or 7 syllables
  10. tycoon
    a very wealthy or powerful businessperson
  11. kimono
    a loose robe originating in Japan
  12. zori
    a sandal attached to the foot by a thong over the toes
  13. adzuki bean
    bushy annual widely grown in China and Japan for the flour made from its seeds
  14. arame
    an edible seaweed with a mild flavor
  15. daikon
    radish of Japan with a long hard durable root eaten raw or cooked
  16. Chinese mushroom
    small tropical and subtropical edible mushroom having a white cap and long stem; an expensive delicacy in China and other Asian countries where it is grown commercially
  17. fugu
    a blowfish highly prized as a delicacy in Japan but highly dangerous because the skin and organs are poisonous
  18. ginkgo
    a deciduous Chinese tree having fan-shaped leaves
  19. hibachi
    a portable heater that burns charcoal and has a grill for cooking
  20. miso
    a fermented soybean paste used in Japanese food
  21. napa
    plant with an elongated head of broad stalked leaves resembling celery; used as a vegetable in east Asia
  22. sake
    Japanese alcoholic beverage made from fermented rice
  23. sashimi
    very thinly sliced raw fish
  24. satsuma
    a variety of mandarin orange
  25. shiitake mushroom
    edible east Asian mushroom having a golden or dark brown to blackish cap and an inedible stipe
  26. sukiyaki
    a hot pot dish with beef, vegetables, tofu, and broth
  27. sushi
    cold rice and vinegar topped or rolled with raw fish
  28. tempura
    vegetables and seafood dipped in batter and deep-fried
  29. teriyaki
    meat or seafood marinated in soy sauce and grilled or broiled
  30. tofu
    a soft, white, cheeselike food made from soybeans
  31. wasabi
    A Japanese plant with a thick green root
  32. mikado
    the emperor of Japan
  33. shogun
    a hereditary military dictator of Japan
  34. aikido
    a Japanese martial art employing principles similar to judo
  35. judo
    a sport adapted from jujitsu and similar to wrestling
  36. jujutsu
    a martial artform that involves defending oneself by hand
  37. karate
    a traditional Japanese system of unarmed combat
  38. sumo
    a Japanese form of wrestling
  39. satori
    (Zen Buddhism) a state of sudden spiritual enlightenment
  40. Shinto
    the ancient indigenous religion of Japan lacking formal dogma; characterized by a veneration of nature spirits and of ancestors
  41. Zen
    school of Mahayana Buddhism asserting that enlightenment can come through meditation and intuition rather than faith; China and Japan
  42. red algae
    marine algae in which the chlorophyll is masked by a red or purplish pigment; source of agar and carrageenan
  43. domoic acid
    a neurotoxin that is deadly for humans
  44. futon
    mattress consisting of a pad of cotton batting
  45. geisha
    a Japanese woman trained to entertain men with conversation and singing and dancing
  46. honcho
    a manager or person who is in charge
  47. kamikaze
    a pilot trained and willing to cause a suicidal crash
  48. katsura tree
    rapidly growing deciduous tree of low mountainsides of China and Japan; grown as an ornamental for its dark blue-green candy-scented foliage that becomes yellow to scarlet in autumn
  49. kudzu
    a type of fast-growing vine
  50. sayonara
    a farewell remark
  51. shiatsu
    treatment of symptoms by applying pressure with the fingers to specific pressure points on the body
  52. sudoku
    a number puzzle in which the numbers 1 through 9 must be placed into a grid of cells so that each row or column contains only one of each number
  53. tsunami
    a cataclysm resulting from a destructive sea wave
Created on Wed Sep 25 18:59:21 EDT 2013

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