奉

to obey orders

magistrate of Nagasaki (Edo period)

apprenticeship; indentureship; indenture; indentured servitude

service with a samurai family; serving in a samurai household (as a valet, chambermaid, etc.)

labor service; labour service

to look up

bargain price

to serve; to build as commanded

Sumo

ritual matches held at a shrine

free service after one has finished one's apprenticeship

Shinto

reverentially offering a branch of the sacred tree

apprenticeship

working as a servant for a series of masters

command sanctioned by the emperor; imperial command

to praise; to render homage to

to offer a wand with hemp and paper streamers to a Shinto god

bargain price

service organization; service club; volunteer group

Organization name

Ise Shrine Offering Association (secular organization formed from Jingu-kyo in 1899; dissolved in 1946)

Historical term

magistrate's office

Historical term

the five commissioners; administrative organ of feudal Japan established by Toyotomi Hideyoshi

Historical term

school building for housing an imperial photograph and a copy of the Imperial Rescript on Education (pre-WWII)

Historical term

chief financial official (Edo period); commissioner of finance; chief treasurer; paymaster

Historical term

chief accountant in a daimyo's service (Muromachi period)

Historical term

return of the land and people from the feudal lords to the Emperor