List: historical term

noun  noun (generic)  historical term  abbreviation 

• red line
• red-light district (marked by a red line on police maps)
• non-legal public road (denoted by a red line on cadastral maps; sometimes no longer physically existing)

noun  noun (generic)  historical term 

• cut hair
• short hairstyle worn by widows (from the early modern period to the Meiji era)

rarely used kanji form  noun  noun (generic)  historical term 

• glabrous sarcandra herb (Sarcandra glabra)
• very large sum (of money), very high value
• 1000 ryō

historical term  noun  noun (generic) 

• Warring States period (of Japanese history, approx. 1467-1568), Sengoku period
• Warring States period (of Chinese history, 403-221 BCE)
• era of vicious competition

historical term  noun  noun (generic) 

• Ashikaga period (i.e. Muromachi period; 1336-1573)

historical term  noun  noun (generic) 

• Taishō period (1912-1926), Taisho period

historical term  abbreviation  noun  noun (generic) 

• Second World War (1939-1945), World War II, WWII, WW2

historical term  noun  noun (generic) 

• China and the Soviet Union, Soviet-Chinese, Sino-Soviet

historical term  noun  noun (generic) 

• maid (not working in the kitchen or living quarters)

historical term  noun  noun (generic) 

• Korean War (1950-1953)