popular rarely used kanji form search-only kanji form noun noun (generic) historical term
- giving one's name, self-introduction
- announcing one's name, rank, lineage, etc. (of a samurai on the battlefield)
- name given to male members of the nobility and samurai class upon coming of age
- Japanese kanji reading used in names
popular historical term noun noun (generic) noun (suffix)
- han (estate of a daimyo in the Edo and early Meiji periods), feudal domain, fief, province
popular historical term noun noun (generic)
- Aki (former province located in the west of present-day Hiroshima Prefecture)
popular noun noun (generic) historical term
- study of classical Japanese literature and culture
- provincial school (established under the ritsuryล system for educating children of district governors)
- school (of a provincial capital during the Xia, Shang and Zhou dynasties)
popular historical term noun noun (generic) abbreviation
- Red Army (Soviet Union, 1918-1946), Workers' and Peasants' Red Army
- Japanese Red Army, JRA
popular noun noun (generic) abbreviation historical term
- country in civil war, country disarrayed by war
- Warring States period (Japan, China)
- competition in which there are several evenly matched participants, hotly contested game (match, market, etc.), anybody's game
popular historical term noun noun (generic)
- Bakumatsu period, closing days of the Tokugawa shogunate, end of the Edo period
popular rarely used kanji form historical term noun noun (generic) noun or participle taking the aux. verb ใใ intransitive verb archaic
- ronin, masterless samurai
- high school graduate waiting for another chance to enter university after having failed the yearly entrance examination
- person out of work, jobless person
- wanderer, drifter
popular historical term noun noun (generic)
- daimyo (Japanese feudal lord)
popular historical term noun noun (generic)
- shogunate, bakufu
- shogun's headquarters
- Imperial Guards office, residence of the Imperial Guards commander