popular  obsolete kanji  noun  noun (generic)  historical term 

• Yomiuri (newspaper, etc. group)
• kawaraban (type of Edo-period single-page newspaper), yomiuri

popular  obsolete kanji  noun  noun (generic)  noun (suffix)  abbreviation  historical term 

• speech, tongue, talk, eloquence
• dialect, brogue, accent
• bento, Japanese box lunch
• petal
• valve
• Oversight Department, division of the daijokan under the ritsuryō system responsible for controlling central and provincial governmental offices

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  JLPT N3  noun  noun (generic)  な adjective  adjective (generic)  noun taking the genitive case particle の  historical term 

• eternity, permanence, perpetuity
• Eikyū era (1113.7.13-1118.4.3)

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