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 ritsuryล 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
popular historical term noun noun (generic)
- Bakumatsu period, closing days of the Tokugawa shogunate, end of the Edo period
popular historical term noun noun (generic)
- daimyo (Japanese feudal lord)
popular historical term noun noun (generic)
- shogunate, bakufu
- shogun's headquarters
- Imperial Guards office, residence of the Imperial Guards commander
popular historical term noun noun (generic)
- period of time (usu. a period of approx. two hours corresponding to one of the signs of the Chinese zodiac)
- carving, engraving, cutting, mincing
- victory
- strictness, cruelty
popular historical term art, aesthetics noun noun (generic)
- ukiyo-e, ukiyoe, Edo-period woodblock print
popular historical term noun noun (generic)
- Echigo (former province located in present-day Niigata Prefecture)
popular JLPT N1 historical term noun noun (generic) archaic
- warrior (esp. of military retainers of daimyos in the Edo period), samurai
- man in attendance (on a person of high standing), retainer