List: historical term
search-only kana form rarely used kanji form usually written using kana alone idiomatic expression noun noun (generic) historical term
- going round in circles, game of cat and mouse, pointless and repetitive back-and-forth
- itachi-gokko, Edo-period children's game in which two players alternately pinch the back of the other's hands and stack them on top of each other while saying "itachi-gokko, nezumi-gokko"
historical term noun noun (generic) noun or participle taking the aux. verb ใใ
- male coming-of-age-ceremony
- shaving one's eyebrows, blackening one's teeth, and wearing one's hair in the marumage style (of a newly married woman; Edo period)
historical term noun noun (generic)
- Imbe clan (ancient Shinto priestly family)
historical term noun noun (generic)
- tattooing (as a form of punishment in ancient China)
search-only kanji form polite language noun noun (generic) historical term
- entertainment, hospitality
- banishment (Edo-period punishment)
noun noun (generic) colloquial historical term
- bleaching, soaking
- bleached cotton (esp. wrapped around the torso)
- doxxing, doxing, making someone's private information public without permission
- public humiliation (Edo-period punishment)
historical term noun noun (generic)
- entering the service of a daimyo
historical term noun noun (generic)
- treadwheel (e.g. for pumping water into fields), treadmill
historical term noun noun (generic)
- rear vassal, daimyo's retainer
historical term noun noun (generic)
- Spanish-American War (1898)