Japanese history - premodern
Showing 16 to 27 of 27 Words
-
-
南蛮人 - なんばんじん
Added 12 years agonoun (common) (futsuumeishi)
southern barbarian (used to describe Western Europeans who visited Japan prior to the Edo period, esp. the Spanish and the Portuguese)
-
-
-
枕草子 -
枕 の草子 -
枕 草紙 - まくらのそうし
Added 12 years agonoun (common) (futsuumeishi)
The Pillow Book (by Sei Shonagon)
-
-
-
封建 - ほうけん
Added 12 years agonoun (common) (futsuumeishi), noun or participle which takes the aux. verb suru, nouns which may take the genitive case particle `no'
feudalistic
-
-
-
万葉集 -
萬葉集 - まんようしゅう
Added 12 years agonoun (common) (futsuumeishi)
Manyoushuu (famous 8thC poetry); Japan's oldest anthology of poems
-
-
-
侍 - さむらい
- さぶらい
Added 12 years agonoun (common) (futsuumeishi)
warrior (esp. of military retainers of daimyos in the Edo period); samurai
man in attendance (on a person of high standing); retainer
-
-
-
神仏 習合 - しんぶつしゅうごう
Added 12 years agonoun (common) (futsuumeishi)
syncretism of Shinto and Buddhism
-
-
-
日本書紀 - にほんしょき
Added 12 years agonoun (common) (futsuumeishi)
Nihon-shoki (the oldest chronicles of Japan)
-
-
-
古事記 - こじき
- ふることふみ
Added 12 years agonoun (common) (futsuumeishi)
Records of Ancient Matters (Japan's oldest historical record)
-
-
-
源氏物語 - げんじものがたり
Added 12 years agonoun (common) (futsuumeishi)
the Tale of the Genji
-
-
-
天皇 - てんのう
- すめらぎ
- すめろぎ
Added 12 years agonoun (common) (futsuumeishi)
Emperor of Japan
-