List: historical term

noun  noun (generic)  historical term  archaic 

• three countries
• Three Kingdoms (in China, 220 CE-280 CE)
• Three Kingdoms (in Korea, 57 BCE-668 CE)
• Japan, China and India, Japan, Korea and China, the whole world

historical term  noun  noun (generic) 

• Thirty Years' War (1618-1648)

yojijukugo  historical term  noun  noun (generic) 

• the 36 (ancient Chinese military) strategies (of which the last resort was said to be beating a retreat)

historical term  noun  noun (generic) 

• the three grand national holidays (Prayer to the Four Quarters, Empire Day, the Emperor's Birthday; pre-1927)

noun  noun (generic)  Buddhism  historical term 

• three cardinal virtues (wisdom, benevolence and valour (valor))
• (having) three uses (e.g. a kitchen knife), (having) three advantages (e.g. a method)
• three qualities of nirvana (dharmakaya, prajna and moksha), three qualities of parinirvana
• three virtues of Buddhahood (benevolence, wisdom and renunciation of klesha), three virtues of Buddhistic enlightenment
• small pouch with separate pockets for a handkerchief, notes and toothpicks (popular during the Edo period)

historical term  noun  noun (generic) 

• the three famous ancient calligraphers (Emperor Saga, Tachibana (no) Hayanari and Kooboo Daishi)

historical term  noun  noun (generic) 

• all daimyo

historical term  noun  noun (generic) 

• the three urban prefectures (Tokyo, Kyoto and Osaka)

ateji  rarely used kanji form  historical term  noun  noun (generic) 

• daimyo's alternating Edo residence, official attendance service (by a daimyo in the Edo period)

noun  noun (generic)  noun or participle taking the aux. verb する  transitive verb  historical term 

• punishment (esp. spanking a child)
• criminal punishment (esp. execution; Edo period)