名

Historical term

right to bear a surname and to wear a sword (during the Edo period)

Historical term

Glorious Revolution (England; 1688-1689); Revolution of 1688

Historical term

daimyo of a feudal domain owned by a Tokugawa family branch

Historical term

kanazōshi; early Edo-period genre written entirely in kana or in a mixture of kana and kanji, primarily intended for women and children

Historical term

policy that forced Koreans under Japanese rule to adopt Japanese names (1939; abolished in 1945)

Historical term

local fire brigade (Edo period); provincial fire brigade

Historical term; Linguistics

special kana usage rules of the Nara period

Historical term

provincial military governor turned daimyo (Muromachi period) (distinct from the shugo bureaucrats of the Kamakura period)

Historical term

cursive kanji form used as a syllabary (Heian period); ancient kana

Historical term

daimyo with a domain of one or more provinces (Edo period)

Rare term

ring finger

Rare term

formal full name

Rare term; Linguistics

na-adjective

Rare term

to be famous; to be well-known

Rare term; Grammar

personal pronoun

Rare term

gaining (in prestige, etc.) from being named in a love rumor

Rare term

term logic

Rare term; Biology

binomial nomenclature

Rare term; Linguistics

uncountable noun

Rare term; Linguistics

reflexive pronoun (in Japanese grammar only)

Rare term; Linguistics

reflexive pronoun (in Japanese grammar only)

Rare term; Grammar

second-person pronoun

Dated term; Computing

library-name

Rare term

upstage right (on a noh stage)