This site will be taken down March 31st, 2026.

This was not an easy decision to make. For the last couple years, I have been struggling to find motivation for this site and to keep up with basic maintenance and security updates. With the rise of AI and more sophisticated tools, the usefulness of sites like this is questionable and traffic has nose-dived. I just don't have it in me to keep doing this. Thank you all for 10 years of support!

Zach

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りょ
bass range (in Japanese music); six even-numbered notes of the ancient chromatic scale; Japanese seven-tone gagaku scaleimilar to Mixolydian mode (corresponding to: re, mi, fa, so, la, ti, do)
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風呂

ふろ
bath; bathtub; bathroom; bathhouse; room for drying lacquerware; base (wooden joint connecting the blade of a hoe, spade, etc., to the handle)
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露天風呂

ろてんぶろ
open air bath; rotemburo
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語呂合せ

語呂合わせ、語呂あわせ、ごろ合わせ、語路合せ、語路合わせ、ごろ合せ
ごろあわせ
rhyming game; play on words; pun
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風呂敷

ふろしき
wrapping cloth; cloth wrapper
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風呂上がり

風呂上り、風呂あがり
ふろあがり
just out of the bath
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麿

麻呂
まろ
I; me; (person having) thin or shaved eyebrows; affectionate suffix for names of young men or pets
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五右衛門風呂

ごえもんぶろ
bath heated directly from beneath, with a floating wooden lid on which the bather sits causing it to sink (named after the robber Goemon Ishikawa, who was boiled to death in one)
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語呂

語路
ごろ
sound (of a sentence); euphony
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男風呂

おとこぶろ
(public) baths for men