文

Historical term

religious oath in writing; written vow to the gods

Historical term

Genbun era (1736.4.28-1741.2.27)

Historical term

epistolary style using the auxiliary "sōrō" in place of "aru"

Historical term

Bunki era (1501.2.29-1504.2.30)

Historical term

Enbun era (of the Northern Court; 1356.3.28-1361.3.29)

Historical term

Tenbun era (1532.7.29-1555.10.23)

Historical term; Abbreviation

(China's) Cultural Revolution (1966-76)

Historical term

government office

Historical term

taotie motif (on ritual bronzes from the Shang and Zhou dynasties)

Historical term

Edo-period office in charge of compiling the traditional calendar, astronomical measurements, surveying, translating Western books, etc.

Historical term

tenmondō (form of astrology)

Historical term

Jōmon period (ca. 14000-1000 BCE)

Historical term

(China's) Cultural Revolution (1966-76)

Historical term

Mesopotamian civilization

Historical term

first Japanese invasion of Korea (1592-93)

Historical term

the four great civilizations of the world (China, Babylon, India and Egypt; as put forward by Chinese scholar Liang Qichao in 1900)

Historical term

hieratic (ancient Egyptian script)

Historical term

Kulturkampf (church-state conflict in Prussia; 1872-1887)

Historical term

straw-rope pattern pottery; Jomon ware

Historical term

merchant class culture that flourished in Edo during the Bunka-Bunsei period

Historical term

Imjin War (1592-1597); Hideyoshi's invasions of Korea

Historical term

literary revolution (of China; post-1917 emphasis on vernacular forms)

Historical term

Bunka-Bunsei period (approx. 1804-1830)

Historical term

demotic (ancient Egyptian script)