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The Nippo Jisho (日葡辞書, literally the "Japanese–Portuguese Dictionary") or Vocabulario da Lingoa de Iapam (Vocabulário da Língua do Japão in modern Portuguese; "Vocabulary of the Language of Japan" in English) is a Japanese-to-Portuguese dictionary compiled by Jesuit missionaries and published in Nagasaki, Japan, in 1603.
View a machine-translated version of the Japanese article. Machine translation, like DeepL or Google Translate, is a useful starting point for translations, but translators must revise errors as necessary and confirm that the translation is accurate, rather than simply copy-pasting machine-translated text into the English Wikipedia.
The Vietnamese zodiac (Vietnamese: Mười hai con giáp) is the traditional Vietnamese classification scheme based on the lunar calendar that assigns an animal and its reputed attributes to each year in a repeating 12-year cycle. The Viet lunar calendar is divided into 60-year cycles known as hồi. Each of these consists of five 12-year ...
Timothy Iles writing for the Electronic Journal for Contemporary Japanese Studies called Azuma's databases "an extremely useful model with which to comprehend postmodernity" and complemented the text of the translation and choice not to 'over-translate'. [7] In 2011, Mark McHarry wrote about Japan's Database Animals for the journal ...
Habu, four different species of venomous snake that exist in certain islands including Okinawa, the Sakishima Islands and the Tokara Islands, but not on the islands of Honshu, Kyushu, Shikoku, Hokkaido.
The following is a list of notable print, electronic, and online Japanese dictionaries. This is a sortable table : clicking the arrows in the header cells will cause the table rows to sort based on the selected column, in ascending order first, and subsequently toggling between ascending and descending order.
The snake is the sixth of the twelve-year cycle of animals which appear in the Chinese zodiac related to the Chinese calendar. The Year of the Snake is associated with the Earthly Branch symbol 巳. [1] According to one legend, there is a reason for the order of the animals in the cycle. A race was held to cross a great river, and the order of ...
Suiko, from the encyclopedia Wakan Sansai Zue (1712) compiled by Terajima Ryōan []. Suiko, from one of Toriyama Sekien's illustrated series, Konjaku Gazu Zoku Hyakki. [a]A shuihu or shui hu (Chinese: 水虎; Wade–Giles: shui-hu; Japanese pronunciation: suiko; lit. 'water tiger'), [b] is a legendary creature said to have inhabited river systems in what is now Hubei Province in China.