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English words of Japanese origin
Words
- Translation: "tray planting"
- General term for wrestling in Japanese
- Translation: "thing to wear." Traditional Japanese garment
- Japanese rice wine
- Translation: "great lord". In modern use means wealthy business leader
- Translation: "arranging flowers"
- Name of semi-seedless and easy-peeling citrus fruit derived from former province in Japan, from which these fruits were first exported to the West.
- Translation: "divine wind"
- Translation: "the honorable gate". Once common term for the emperor, now considered obsolete.
- Translation: "gentle way".
- The native religion of Japan
- A teacher or mentor, especially of a martial art
- A flat mattress that makes up a Japanese bed
- Traditional Japanese artist-entertainers
- Very short poem consisting of three lines
- Translation: "folding paper"
- Translation: "empty handed"
- A military governor in Japan before 1867
- Comics or graphic novels originating from Japan
- Translation: "empty orchestra"
- Translation: "squad leader"
- Japanese equivalent of goodbye
- Bean curd
- Japanese horseradish
- A person trained in ancient Japanese martial arts and employed for espionage and assassinations
- Coloured varieties of the Amur carp
- Translation: "the digits must remain single"
- Translation: "harbour wave"
- Word that comes from Japanese words for 'picture' and 'character'
- Gaining enlightenment through meditation
Answers
- BONSAI
- SUMO
- KIMONO
- SAKE
- TYCOON
- IKEBANA
- SATSUMA
- KAMIKAZE
- MIKADO
- JUDO
- SHINTO
- SENSEI
- FUTON
- GEISHA
- HAIKU
- ORIGAMI
- KARATE
- SHOGUN
- MANGA
- KARAOKE
- HONCHO
- SAYONARA
- TOFU
- WASABI
- NINJA
- KOI
- SUDOKU
- TSUNAMI
- EMOJI
- ZEN