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English Meanings:
noun
- thriller (movie, story)
English Meanings:
noun
- saga
探偵小説
[たんていしょうせつ]
tanteishousetsu
noun
English Meanings:
noun
- detective story
捕物帳
[とりものちょう]
torimonochou
noun
Alternate Written Forms:
捕物帖
[とりものちょう]
torimonochou
捕り物帳
[とりものちょう]
torimonochou
English Meanings:
noun
- detective story (esp. one from the Edo period featuring thief-takers)
- detective's memoirs; thief taker's memoirs
ディテクティブストーリー
ditekutibusutoorii
noun
Alternate Written Forms:
ディテクティブ・ストーリー
ditekutibu sutoorii
English Meanings:
noun
- detective story
プロット
purotto
noun, suru verb
English Meanings:
noun
- plot (of a story)
noun, suru verb
- plotting (a graph)
筋
[すじ]
suji
noun, noun, used as a suffix, no adjective, suffix, counter
Alternate Written Forms:
English Meanings:
noun
- muscle; tendon; sinew
- vein; artery
- fiber; fibre; string
- line; stripe; streak
- reason; logic
- plot; storyline
- lineage; descent
- school (e.g. of scholarship or arts)
- aptitude; talent
- source (of information, etc.); circle; channel
- well-informed person (in a transaction)
- logical move (in go, shogi, etc.)
- ninth vertical line
- seam on a helmet
- gristly fish paste (made of muscle, tendons, skin, etc.)
- social position; status
noun, used as a suffix, noun, no adjective
- on (a river, road, etc.); along
suffix, counter
- counter for long thin things; counter for roads or blocks when giving directions
- (Edo period) counter for hundreds of mon (obsolete unit of currency)
English Meanings:
noun
- muscle
牧歌
[ぼっか]
bokka
noun
English Meanings:
noun
- shepherd's song
- pastoral poem; pastoral song; pastoral; bucolic; eclogue
English Meanings:
noun
- idyll
English Meanings:
noun
- epic
English Meanings:
noun
- sonnet
- SONET; SO-NET
English Meanings:
noun
- berth
- verse
- birth
English Meanings:
noun
- ballade (narrative poetry, musical composition)
- ballad (popular song)
哀歌
[あいか]
aika
noun, no adjective
English Meanings:
noun, no adjective
- lament (song); elegy; dirge; sad song
- Lamentations (book of the Bible)
哀詩
[あいし]
aishi
noun
English Meanings:
noun
- elegy
韻文
[いんぶん]
inbun
noun, no adjective
English Meanings:
noun, no adjective
- verse; poetry
English Meanings:
noun
- song (唄 is primarily used for shamisen songs)
- classical Japanese poetry (esp. tanka)
- modern poetry
句
[く]
ku
noun, noun, used as a suffix
English Meanings:
noun, noun, used as a suffix
- section (i.e. of text); sentence; passage; paragraph
- phrase
- verse (of 5 or 7 mora in Japanese poetry; of 4, 5, or 7 characters in Chinese poetry)
- haiku; first 17 morae of a renga, etc.
- maxim; saying; idiom; expression
詩句
[しく]
shiku
noun, no adjective
English Meanings:
noun, no adjective
- verse