popular  obsolete term  noun  noun (generic)  historical term  archaic 

• third month of the lunar calendar
• Yayoi period (ca. 300 BCE-300 CE), Yayoi culture
• thick growth (of grass, etc.)

popular  historical term  abbreviation  noun  noun (generic) 

• West Germany (1949-1990)

popular  historical term  noun  noun (generic) 

• Second World War (1939-1945), World War II, WWII, WW2

popular  historical term  noun  noun (generic)  colloquial 

• zaibatsu, financial conglomerate, industrial group
• rich person

popular  noun  noun (generic)  historical term  abbreviation 

• straw-rope pattern pressed into earthenware
• Jōmon period (ca. 14000-1000 BCE)

popular  rarely-used kanji form  search-only kanji form  noun  noun (generic)  historical term 

• giving one's name, self-introduction
• announcing one's name, rank, lineage, etc. (of a samurai on the battlefield)
• name given to male members of the nobility and samurai class upon coming of age
• Japanese kanji reading used in names

popular  historical term  noun  noun (generic)  noun (suffix) 

• han (estate of a daimyo in the Edo and early Meiji periods), feudal domain, fief, province

popular  historical term  noun  noun (generic) 

• Aki (former province located in the west of present-day Hiroshima Prefecture)

popular  noun  noun (generic)  historical term 

• study of classical Japanese literature and culture
• provincial school (established under the ritsuryō system for educating children of district governors)
• school (of a provincial capital during the Xia, Shang and Zhou dynasties)

popular  historical term  noun  noun (generic)  abbreviation 

• Red Army (Soviet Union, 1918-1946), Workers' and Peasants' Red Army
• Japanese Red Army, JRA