List: historical term

historical term  noun  noun (generic) 

• dazaifu (under the ritsuryō system, governmental office with jurisdiction over Kyushu, Iki and Tsushima)

historical term  noun  noun (generic) 

• five punishments (of ancient China: tattooing, cutting off the nose, cutting off a leg, castration or confinement, death)
• five punishments (of the ritsuryō system: light caning, severe caning, imprisonment, exile, death)

historical term  noun  noun (generic) 

• imprisonment (for 1-3 years; third most severe of the five ritsuryō punishments)

historical term  noun  noun (generic) 

• exile (second most severe of the five ritsuryō punishments)

historical term  noun  noun (generic) 

• public caning (60-100 strokes; second least severe of the five ritsuryō punishments)

historical term  noun  noun (generic) 

• caning (10-50 strokes; least severe of the five ritsuryō punishments)

historical term  noun  noun (generic) 

• five punishments (of the ritsuryō system: light caning, severe caning, imprisonment, exile, death)
• five punishments (of ancient China: tattooing, cutting off the nose, cutting off a leg, castration or confinement, death)

historical term  noun  noun (generic) 

• pre-Qin period (of China)

historical term  noun  noun (generic) 

• four administrative positions (of the ritsuryō system: kami, suke, jou, sakan)

archaic  historical term  noun  noun (generic)  noun taking the genitive case particle の  adjective (generic) 

• director (highest of the four administrative positions of the ritsuryō system), chief