List: historical term
usually written using kana alone noun noun (generic) historical term abbreviation
- squirrel's foot fern (Davallia mariesii)
- Lepisorus thunbergianus (species of fern)
- color of clothing layers under one's overcoat (light green on blue)
- shinobu-wake (Edo-period women's hairstyle)
- clothing patterned using squirrel's foot fern
historical term noun noun (generic)
- helmet with white hair coming out of the top, making the wearer look like an old person
- kanji "old" radical at top
historical term noun noun (generic)
- small block of wood used to clean one's anus after defecating
historical term noun noun (generic)
- metal industry boom (of the early 1950s)
card games noun noun (generic) historical term
- deck (from which players draw cards), draw pile, stock
- tag verifying one has permission to take plants and trees from common land (Edo period)
gairaigo Sanskrit origin ateji historical term usually written using kana alone noun noun (generic)
- Shudra (member of India's worker caste), Shoodra
historical term noun noun (generic)
- the five sciences of ancient India (grammar and composition, arts and mathematics, medicine, logic, and philosophy)
historical term noun noun (generic)
- silpasthanavidya (ancient Indian study of the arts, incl. mathematics and mechanics)
historical term noun noun (generic)
- Sekimon Shingaku, Edo-period moral philosophy that blended Buddhist, Shinto and Confucian ethical teachings
historical term noun noun (generic)
- incarcerating a criminal in a temple as a form of punishment (popular during the latter Muromachi and Azuchi-Momoyama periods)