| 上 | [じょう, jou] (n, adj-no, n-adv, n-suf) (1) above; up; over; elder (e.g. daughter); (2) top; summit; (3) surface; on; (4) before; previous; (5) superiority; one's superior (i.e. one's elder); (6) on top of that; besides; what's more; (7) upon (further inspection, etc.); based on (and occurring after); (8) matters concerning...; as concerns ...; (9) (as ...上は) since (i.e. "for that reason"); (n-suf) (10) (hon) (See 父上) suffix indicating higher social standing; (11) (arch) place of one's superior (i.e. the throne); (12) (arch) emperor; sovereign; shogun; daimyo; (13) (arch) noblewoman (esp. the wife of a nobleman); (P) #111 [Add to Longdo] |
| 院 | [いん, in] (n) (1) (hon) imperial palace; (2) emperor (or his empress, imperial princesses, etc.); (suf) (3) temple; (4) institution (esp. a government office, school, hospital, etc.); (5) suffix used in posthumous names (esp. of emperors, daimyos, etc.) #629 [Add to Longdo] |
| 藩主 | [はんしゅ, hanshu] (n) feudal lord; daimyo; (P) #3,150 [Add to Longdo] |
| 侯 | [こう, kou] (n, n-suf) marquis; lord; daimyo; (P) #3,491 [Add to Longdo] |
| 侍 | [さむらい(P);さぶらい, samurai (P); saburai] (n) (1) warrior (esp. of military retainers of daimyos in the Edo period); samurai; (2) (さぶらい only) (arch) man in attendance (on a person of high standing); retainer; (P) #4,255 [Add to Longdo] |
| 大名 | [だいみょう, daimyou] (n) daimyo (Japanese feudal lord); daimio; (P) #4,446 [Add to Longdo] |
| 柏(P);槲;檞(oK) | [かしわ, kashiwa] (n) oak; daimyo oak; Japanese emperor oak; Quercus dentata; (P) #4,583 [Add to Longdo] |
| 家老 | [かろう, karou] (n) chief retainer; daimyo's minister #9,948 [Add to Longdo] |
| 居城 | [きょじょう, kyojou] (n) castle of a daimyo; castle of feudal lord #15,036 [Add to Longdo] |
| 本陣 | [ほんじん, honjin] (n) troop headquarters; daimyo's inn; stronghold #17,964 [Add to Longdo] |
| 譜代;譜第 | [ふだい, fudai] (n) (1) successive generations; (2) (abbr) (See 譜代大名) hereditary daimyo (whose ancestors supported Tokugawa Ieyasu prior to the battle of Sekigahara) #18,924 [Add to Longdo] |
| お国;御国 | [おくに, okuni] (n) (1) (hon) your native country; your hometown; (2) (pol) my home country (i.e. Japan); (3) countryside; country; (4) (arch) daimyo's territory (Edo period) [Add to Longdo] |
| お忍び;御忍び | [おしのび, oshinobi] (n) (1) (abbr) travelling incognito (traveling); (2) (See 御忍び駕籠) special palanquin for carrying a daimyo or his wife incognito [Add to Longdo] |
| 移封 | [いほう, ihou] (n, vs) forced relocation of a daimyo to a different domain by the Edo shogunate [Add to Longdo] |
| 下屋敷 | [しもやしき, shimoyashiki] (n) villa; daimyo's suburban residence [Add to Longdo] |
| 外様;外方 | [とざま, tozama] (n) (1) (abbr) (See 外様大名) outside daimyo; non-Tokugawa daimyo; (2) outsider; one not included in the favored (favoured) group [Add to Longdo] |
| 外様大名 | [とざまだいみょう, tozamadaimyou] (n) non-Tokugawa daimyo [Add to Longdo] |
| 楽市楽座 | [らくいちらくざ, rakuichirakuza] (n) free markets and open guilds (policy enacted by daimyo in the Azuchimomoyama Period (1573-1598) that weakened the strict regulations surrounding business establishment in market places and important cities, allowing new businesses to open in Joka-machi market places) [Add to Longdo] |
| 勤番 | [きんばん, kinban] (n) taking turns on duty (esp. daimyo's retainers on duty in Edo) [Add to Longdo] |
| 五大明王 | [ごだいみょうおう, godaimyouou] (n) { Buddh } five great wisdom kings (Acala, Kundali, Trilokavijaya, Vajrayaksa, Yamantaka) [Add to Longdo] |
| 五大老 | [ごたいろう, gotairou] (n) (See 五奉行) Council of Five Elders (committee of daimyo formed by Toyotomi Hideyoshi to rule Japan until his son Hideyori came of age) [Add to Longdo] |
| 御家騒動;お家騒動 | [おいえそうどう, oiesoudou] (n) family trouble (quarrel); domestic squabble; internal squabble (over headship rights) in a daimyo family in the Edo period [Add to Longdo] |
| 御前試合 | [ごぜんじあい, gozenjiai] (n) game (contest) held in the presence of a lord (daimyo, shogun) [Add to Longdo] |
| 御殿女中;ご殿女中 | [ごてんじょちゅう, gotenjochuu] (n) waiting woman in a shogun or daimyo's palace [Add to Longdo] |
| 御忍び駕籠 | [おしのびかご, oshinobikago] (n) special palanquin for carrying a daimyo or his wife incognito [Add to Longdo] |
| 国主 | [こくしゅ, kokushu] (n) king; sovereign; daimyo [Add to Longdo] |
| 国守 | [こくしゅ, kokushu] (n) daimyo [Add to Longdo] |
| 三百諸侯 | [さんびゃくしょこう, sanbyakushokou] (n) all the daimyos [Add to Longdo] |
| 参勤交替;参覲交代 | [さんきんこうたい, sankinkoutai] (n) official attendance service (by a daimyo in the Edo era) [Add to Longdo] |
| 参勤交代 | [さんきんこうたい, sankinkoutai] (n) daimyo's alternating Edo residence [Add to Longdo] |
| 主取;主取り | [しゅうどり, shuudori] (n, vs) entering the service of a daimyo [Add to Longdo] |
| 主人持ち | [しゅじんもち, shujinmochi] (n) samurai attached to a daimyo [Add to Longdo] |
| 守護大名 | [しゅごだいみょう, shugodaimyou] (n) (arch) provincial military governor turned daimyo (Muromachi period) (distinct from the shugo bureaucrats of the Kamakura period) [Add to Longdo] |
| 上屋敷 | [かみやしき, kamiyashiki] (n) daimyo's main Tokyo mansion [Add to Longdo] |
| 親藩大名 | [しんぱんだいみょう, shinpandaimyou] (n) the daimyo of a feudal domain owned by a Tokugawa family branch [Add to Longdo] |
| 戦国大名 | [せんごくだいみょう, sengokudaimyou] (n) daimyo in the Warring States period [Add to Longdo] |
| 蔵屋敷 | [くらやしき, kurayashiki] (n) daimyo's city storehouse [Add to Longdo] |
| 大名屋敷 | [だいみょうやしき, daimyouyashiki] (n) daimyo's mansion [Add to Longdo] |
| 大名行列 | [だいみょうぎょうれつ, daimyougyouretsu] (n) daimyo's procession [Add to Longdo] |
| 大名旅行 | [だいみょうりょこう, daimyouryokou] (n) traveling in luxury; travelling in luxury; a junket [Add to Longdo] |
| 中屋敷 | [なかやしき, nakayashiki] (n) (1) daimyo's spare residence or emergency refuge; (2) residence of a daimyo's successor [Add to Longdo] |
| 町医者 | [まちいしゃ, machiisha] (n) (1) physician in private practice (practise); (2) (arch) town doctor; doctor who served the the townspeople (as opposed to the emperor, a daimyo, etc.) [Add to Longdo] |
| 定詰;定詰め | [じょうづめ, joudume] (n, vs) (1) (obsc) permanent staff; permanent employee; service for a fixed period of time; (n) (2) (arch) (Edo era) a daimyo or feudal retainer who lived and; or served in Edo for a fixed period of time [Add to Longdo] |
| 転封 | [てんぽう;てんぷう, tenpou ; tenpuu] (n, vs) forced relocation of a daimyo to a different domain by the Edo shogunate [Add to Longdo] |
| 馬回り | [うままわり, umamawari] (n) a daimyo's (mounted) guards or retainers [Add to Longdo] |
| 陪臣 | [ばいしん, baishin] (n) rear vassal; daimyo's retainer [Add to Longdo] |
| 八大明王 | [はちだいみょうおう, hachidaimyouou] (n) { Buddh } (See 五大明王) eight great wisdom kings (Acala, Kundali, Mezu, Munosho, Trilokavijaya, Ucchusma, Vajrayaksa, Yamantaka) [Add to Longdo] |
| 藩侯 | [はんこう, hankou] (n) feudal lord; daimyo [Add to Longdo] |
| 藩儒 | [はんじゅ, hanju] (n) (Confucian) scholar retained by a feudal lord or daimyo [Add to Longdo] |
| 藩邸 | [はんてい, hantei] (n) residence maintained by a daimyo in Edo [Add to Longdo] |
