List: historical term

search-only kanji form  historical term  noun  noun (generic)  noun or participle taking the aux. verb する  transitive verb 

• attacking a passerby with a sword (to test its sharpness or one's skill), samurai who tries out his sword on a passerby

noun  noun (generic)  humble language  historical term 

• little shop, small shop, small store
• my shop
• low class whorehouse in Yoshiwara (Edo period), low class brothel
• passage formed under the eaves of houses after heavy snowfalls (Tōhoku region)

historical term  noun  noun (generic) 

• resting place between inn towns (Edo period), town situated between two post towns

historical term  expression  noun  noun (generic) 

• Ōnin War (1467-1477)

historical term  noun  noun (generic) 

• hired thief taker (Edo period), private secret policeman, private detective

search-only kanji form  historical term  noun  noun (generic) 

• kawaraban (type of Edo-period single-page newspaper)

historical term  noun  noun (generic) 

• Han dynasty (of China; 202 BCE-220 CE)

historical term  noun  noun (generic) 

• provincial samurai

obsolete reading  noun  noun (generic)  abbreviation  historical term 

• Metal Monkey (57th term of the sexagenary cycle, e.g. 1920, 1980, 2040)
• Shōmen Kongō (deity)
• kōshin-machi (religious wake)

historical term  noun  noun (generic) 

• provincial official (under the ritsuryō system; esp. a governor)