List: historical term
popular JLPT N3 noun noun (generic) historical term abbreviation
- National Diet, legislative assembly of Japan (1947-)
- Imperial Diet, legislative assembly of Japan (1889-1947)
- legislative assembly, parliament, congress
popular JLPT N3 noun noun (generic) noun (suffix) historical term archaism suffix
- state (of the US, Australia, India, Germany, etc.), province (e.g. of Canada), county (e.g. of the UK), region (e.g. of Italy), canton, oblast
- continent
- province (of Japan)
- province (of ancient China), prefecture, department
- dear
popular obsolete kanji JLPT N5 noun noun (generic) historical term abbreviation
- university, college
- former imperial university of Japan (established under the ritsuryล system for the training of government administrators)
- the Great Learning (one of the Four Books)
popular noun noun (generic) historical term
- Ministry of Finance (1869-2001)
- Ministry of the Treasury (under the ritsuryล system)
popular obsolete kanji JLPT N5 noun noun (generic) historical term archaism
- country, state
- region
- national government, central government
- home (i.e. hometown, home country)
- province (of Japan)
- land, earth
popular abbreviation noun noun (generic) historical term
- South Korea, Republic of Korea
- Korean Empire (1897-1910)
popular JLPT N1 noun noun (generic) baseball historical term
- death, decease
- (an) out
- death penalty (by strangulation or decapitation; most severe of the five ritsuryล punishments)
popular noun noun (generic) noun (suffix) historical term
- large country, major nation, great power
- province of the highest rank (ritsuryล system)
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