List: historical term
historical term noun noun (generic)
- People's Commissar (in the early Soviet Union)
gairaigo Sanskrit origin noun noun (generic) historical term abbreviation
- bhikkhuni (fully ordained Buddhist nun)
- travelling female entertainer dressed as a nun (Kamakura, Muromachi periods)
- lowly prostitute dressed as a nun (Edo period)
- female servant hired to take the blame for a noblewoman's farts
noun noun (generic) noun or participle taking the aux. verb ใใ transitive verb intransitive verb historical term
- closing down a hospital, institution, temple, etc., shutting down
- closing a hospital, institution, temple, etc. (for the day)
- adjourning a session of the Imperial Diet
historical term noun noun (generic)
- (Edo-period) roadside teahouse where one would go to relax (in comparison with a restaurant style teahouse and teahouse offering sexual services)
historical term noun noun (generic)
- ritsuryล system, ancient East Asian system of centralized governance; in Japan: esp. 7th-10th century
historical term noun noun (generic)
- the Japanese nation under the ritsuryล codes (645 CE-10th century)
historical term noun noun (generic)
- Kellogg-Briand Pact (1928), Pact of Paris
historical term noun noun (generic)
- second most severe of the five punishments of ancient China (castration for men, confinement for women)
historical term noun noun (generic)
- kouta (Heian-era court lady's song accompanying the men's ลuta), court lady singing a kouta
- ditty, ballad, short, hummable, popular tune from Muromachi period to early Edo period
- kyogen kouta, style of kyogen song based on the Muromachi songs, often a love ballad
- noh kouta, unusual style of noh song based on the Muromachi songs
noun noun (generic) historical term
- administration, government, administrator, chief executive
- consul (of the French republic; 1799-1804)