popular  obsolete reading  historical term  noun  noun (generic) 

• Lord Keeper of the Privy Seal (1885-1945)
• Minister of the Interior (669-1868)

popular  obsolete reading  historical term  noun  noun (generic) 

• chōnin (Edo-period social class of town-dwelling commoners, esp. landowning merchants), townspeople, townsfolk, tradespeople

popular  historical term  noun  noun (generic)  archaic 

• Tang dynasty (of China; 618-907), T'ang dynasty
• China, foreign country

popular  historical term  noun  noun (generic) 

• ninja, person trained in ninjutsu and employed for covert purposes in feudal Japan

popular  noun  noun (generic)  historical term 

• commoner, plebeian
• commoner (in Japan between 1869 and 1947; the lowest of the three classes)

popular  historical term  noun  noun (generic)  abbreviation 

• Qing dynasty (of China; 1644-1912), Ch'ing dynasty, Manchu dynasty
• seichōtai, typeface which resembles brush-stroke forms of characters

popular  JLPT N1  noun  noun (generic)  noun or participle taking the aux. verb する  intransitive verb  historical term 

• retirement (from work), leading a quiet life (after retirement)
• retired person, retiree
• surrendering headship of the family (pre-WWII)

popular  historical term  noun  noun (generic) 

• First World War (1914-1918), World War I, WWI, WW1

popular  な adjective  adjective (generic)  noun taking the genitive case particle の  historical term  noun  noun (generic) 

• secret, clandestine, covert, stealthy
• spy (for a daimyo, shogun, etc.), secret agent

popular  historical term  noun  noun (generic) 

• American Civil War (1861-1865)