Japan trivia, answered in Japanese

38 questions about Japan's places, culture and daily life, and every answer is a Japanese word. Pick it from four, or type how it's read.

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It's a quiz about Japan and a vocabulary quiz at once: after each answer you see the word with its reading, and signed in, the words you miss come back in Smart Review.

Typed answers take the reading in romaji or kana. Where a word has two standard readings, either counts (茶道: さどう or ちゃどう).

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Places 7: 富士山、琵琶湖、東京、本州、四国、京都、奈良
Culture 18: 円、君が代、日の丸、俳句、歌舞伎、文楽、落語、茶道、生け花、書道、盆栽、折り紙、鳥居、神道、横綱、土俵、柔道、剣道
Daily life 13: 新幹線、浴衣、温泉、旅館、花見、梅雨、正月、お盆、七夕、招き猫、忘年会、国会、漫画

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Japan trivia: every word with its reading and meaning
Question	Answer	Reading	Part
Japan's highest mountain (3,776 m)	富士山	ふじさん	Places
Japan's largest lake	琵琶湖	びわこ	Places
The capital of Japan	東京	とうきょう	Places
The largest of Japan's four main islands	本州	ほんしゅう	Places
The smallest of Japan's four main islands	四国	しこく	Places
The city that was Japan's capital for over a thousand years, until 1869	京都	きょうと	Places
The old capital famous for the deer that roam its park	奈良	なら	Places
Japan's currency	円	えん	Culture
Japan's national anthem	君が代	きみがよ	Culture
The popular name of Japan's flag, 'the circle of the sun'	日の丸	ひのまる	Culture
A short poem of 5, 7 and 5 syllables, with a word for the season	俳句	はいく	Culture
Traditional theatre with bold stage makeup, its actors all men	歌舞伎	かぶき	Culture
Traditional puppet theatre	文楽	ぶんらく	Culture
Comic storytelling by one performer kneeling on a cushion	落語	らくご	Culture
The tea ceremony	茶道	さどう, ちゃどう	Culture
The art of arranging flowers	生け花	いけばな	Culture
The art of writing with a brush and ink	書道	しょどう	Culture
Miniature trees grown in pots	盆栽	ぼんさい	Culture
The art of folding paper	折り紙	おりがみ	Culture
The gate at the entrance to a Shinto shrine	鳥居	とりい	Culture
Japan's native religion, of shrines and kami	神道	しんとう	Culture
The highest rank in sumo	横綱	よこづな	Culture
The ring sumo wrestlers fight in	土俵	どひょう	Culture
The martial art whose name means 'the gentle way'	柔道	じゅうどう	Culture
Fencing with bamboo swords	剣道	けんどう	Culture
Japan's high-speed 'bullet train'	新幹線	しんかんせん	Daily life
A light cotton kimono for summer and hot springs	浴衣	ゆかた	Daily life
A natural hot spring, and the baths and resorts built around one	温泉	おんせん	Daily life
A traditional Japanese inn, with tatami rooms	旅館	りょかん	Daily life
Gathering to view the cherry blossoms in spring	花見	はなみ	Daily life
The rainy season of early summer	梅雨	つゆ, ばいう	Daily life
The New Year holidays	正月	しょうがつ	Daily life
The summer festival when the spirits of ancestors are welcomed home	お盆	おぼん	Daily life
The star festival on 7 July, when wishes are written on paper strips	七夕	たなばた	Daily life
The cat figure with a raised paw that shops keep for good luck	招き猫	まねきねこ	Daily life
A party at the end of the year, with coworkers or friends	忘年会	ぼうねんかい	Daily life
Japan's parliament	国会	こっかい	Daily life
Japanese comics	漫画	まんが	Daily life

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