popular obsolete reading JLPT N2 noun noun (generic) historical term
- Kansai (region comprising Kyoto, Osaka, Kobe and surrounding prefectures)
- Kansai (western half of Japan; during the feudal era)
popular JLPT N3 noun noun (generic) noun or participle taking the aux. verb ใใ intransitive verb historical term
- contribution (furthering a goal or cause), services (to a cause)
- paying tribute, tribute
popular noun noun (generic) historical term suffix counter
- seat, place
- position, status
- gathering, party, company, atmosphere (of a gathering)
- stand, pedestal, platform
- trade guild
- attaches to the names of constellations
- attaches to the names of theatres, cinemas and theatrical troupes
- counter for theatres, deities, Buddhist images, tall mountains, and satokagura songs
popular JLPT N3 noun noun (generic) historical term
- present day, modern times, recent times
- early modern period (in Japan, usu. from the Meiji Restoration until the end of World War II)
popular JLPT N3 noun noun (generic) historical term
- farmer, farming family
- farmhouse
- School of Agrarianism (China), School of Agronomists
popular search-only kanji form historical term noun noun (generic)
- Meiji era (1868.9.8-1912.7.30)
popular noun noun (generic) noun (suffix) historical term
- Ginza (district in Tokyo)
- busy shopping district, bustling location
- silver mint (Edo period)
popular historical term noun noun (generic)
- Edo (shogunate capital; former name of Tokyo), Yedo
popular noun noun (generic) noun or participle taking the aux. verb ใใ intransitive verb historical term archaic
- running (for election), coming forward as a candidate
- going on horseback (to a battle)
- going in person
- letting out a horse, taking out a horse
popular search-only kanji form historical term noun noun (generic) colloquial ใช adjective adjective (generic)
- Shลwa era (1926.12.25-1989.1.7)
- reminiscent of the Shลwa era, Shลwa-nostalgic, old-fashioned, quaint, old-school