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Muki Saijiki Table of Contents
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天文

1 NATURAL PHENOMENA

夕日

 

3 setting sun / evening sun

2 Sky, Air, Heaven, Vacancy

夕陽

3 evening sun / setting sun

青空

3 blue sky

落日

3 setting of the sun / setting sun

大空

3 (blue) vault of heaven / firmament / arch of sky / spherical, concave

落暉

3 sunset / setting sun / evening sun

3 heaven / sky / sphere / upper region / head, edge / head of page

2 Stars

天体

3 astronomic(al) object, celestial globe, heavenly body, luminary

星座

3 constellation

天空

3 airy region / expanse / firmament / sphere

恒星

3 fixed star

天心

3 the center of heaven / the center of sky

惑星

3 planet

宇宙

3 absolute / cosmos / heaven and earth / world

彗星

3 comet

空間

3 interspace / interval / open space / room / vacancy / vacuity / void

大熊座

3 The Great Bear / the Big Dipper / Ursa Major / the Plow

地球

2 Blue Planet, Earth, Globe

カシオペア

3 Cassiopeia

南極

3 South Pole / negative pole / south geographic pole

2 Eclipse

北極

3 North Pole / north geographic pole / north-seeking pole / positive pole

日食

3 solar eclipse

緯度

3 degrees of latitude / terrestrial latitude

月食

3 lunar eclipse

経度

3 longitude

宇宙船

2 Spaceship, Starship, Rocket Ship

日付変更線

3 International Date Line

人工衛星

3 satellite / artificial satellite

太陽

2 The Sun

宇宙旅行

3 space travel / space voyage

日輪

3 sun disk

2 Cloud, The Clouds

烈日

3 the burning sun

浮雲

3 floating cloud / drifting cloud

朝日

3 morning sun / rising sun

白雲

3 white cloud

旭日

3 risen sun

飛行機雲

3 contrail / vapor trail / condensation  / trail / streamer

 


 

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2 Wind, Air Current(s)

2 Darkness, The Dark

海風

3 sea breeze / wind from the sea

暗い

3 dark

陸風

3 land breeze / land wind

冥い

3 dark

微風

3 breeze

暗がり

3 dark place

疾風

3 blast / strong wind

暗闇

3 darkness

2 Rain

夜陰

3 the darkness of the night

雨脚

3 manner of raining / wisp of rain

時間

2 Time

長雨

3 continual rain / long spell of rain

光陰

3 days / day and night

大雨

3 heavy rain / downpour

星霜

3 years

通り雨

3 passing rain / shower

世紀

3 century

にわか雨

3 sudden shower

白亜紀

3 the Cretaceous period

涙雨

3 sprinkling rain / weeping rain

五十億年

3 five billion years

酸性雨

3 acid rain

未来

2 Future

日溜り

2 Sunny Place, Sunny and Warm Place

2 Year

2 Light

歳月

3 years

閃光

3 flash / gleam / glint of light

年月

3 years and months

発光

3 emission of light / luminescence

四季

3 the four seasons

光芒

3 shaft of light / beam of light

季節

3 season

微光

3 glimmer

平年

3 common year

極光

3 aurora

閏年

3 intercalary year / leap year

反射光

3 reflected light

カレンダー

3 calendar

2 Shadow

3 calendar

影法師

human shadow / silhouette

万歳

3 many years / longevity / prospering for a long time

 


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月日

2 Days, Days and Months

夕暮れ

2 Evening, Dusk

3 week

3 evening

曜日

3 the day of the week

夕方

3 evening

昨日

3 yesterday

黄昏

3 dusk / twilight

今日

3 today

日暮れ

3 sunset

明日

3 tomorrow

夕闇

3 evening gloom / film of early twilight / shadows of dusk

時代

2 Era, Period, Age, Epoch, Time

薄暮

3 evening gloom

明治

3 Meiji era

暮れ六つ

3 six in the evening / 6 p.m.

大正

3 Taisho era

2 Night

昭和

3 Showa era

夜間

3 nighttime / during the night

平成

3 Heisei era

深夜

3 middle of the night

戦前

3 before the war / prewar

真夜中

3 midnight / middle of the night

戦後

3 postwar / after World War II

午前零時

3 midnight / 12 a.m.

2 Morning

夜更け

3 late at night / middle of the night

3 dawn / daybreak

深更

3 middle of the night

夜明け

3 dawn / daybreak

方位

2 Direction, Azimuth, Bearing

明け六つ

3 six in the morning

方角

3 bearing / direction

午前

3 before noon / forenoon / morning

東西南北

3 north, south, east and west /

four cardinal directions / four points of the compass

2 Daytime

鬼門

3 demon's gate / the quarter lying to the northeast of one’s position, superstitiously believed to be unlucky / northeast

正午

3 noon / midday

恵方

3 lucky direction

午後

3 afternoon

距離

2 Distance

白日

3 the bright sun / broad daylight

一里塚

3 milestone / milepost


地理  GEOGRAPHY

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地理

1 GEOGRAPHY

原野

3 an uncultivated field/a plain/wasteland/a wilderness

2 Land

ツンドラ

2 Tundra

大陸

3 continent / mainland / terra firma

地震

2 Earthquake(shock), Earth tremor

大地

3 firm ground / mother earth / terra firma/ terrestrial mass

砂漠

2 Desert

地平線

3 celestial horizon / horizon / horizon line / skyline