Japanese history - premodern




摂政, せっしょう

regent, regency

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右大臣, うだいじん

Minister of the Right (official in Nara and Heian periods)

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左大臣, さだいじん

Minister of the Left (official in Nara and Heian periods)

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格式, かくしき, きゃくしき

formality, social rule, social status, amendments and enforcement regulations (of the ritsuryo)

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内親王, ないしんのう

imperial princess, royal princess

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親王, しんのう

prince of royal blood, Imperial prince

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五摂家, ごせっけ

the five regent houses, five families of the Fujiwara clan (Konoe, Kujo, Nijo, Ichijo, and Takatsukasa) entrusted as imperial regents and advisors starting in the Kamakura period

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律令, りつりょう, りつれい

criminal, administrative and civil codes (forming the basis of ancient East Asian law; orig. Chinese), legal codes of the Nara and Heian eras based on Chinese models

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下剋上, 下克上, げこくじょう

juniors dominating seniors, retainer supplanting his lord

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関白, かんぱく

chief advisor to the Emperor (adviser)

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鎌倉幕府, かまくらばくふ

Kamakura shogunate (1185-1333 CE)

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室町幕府, むろまちばくふ

Muromachi shogunate (1336-1573 CE)

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足利幕府, あしかがばくふ

Ashikaga shogunate (i.e. the Muromachi shogunate, 1336-1573 CE)

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平清盛, たいらのきよもり

Kiyomori (shogun)

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兵農分離, へいのうぶんり

separation of farmers and samurai (system in effect from the Azuchi-Momoyama period until the Edo period)

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南蛮人, なんばんじん

southern barbarian (used to describe Western Europeans who visited Japan prior to the Edo period, esp. the Spanish and the Portuguese)

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枕草子, 枕の草子, 枕草紙, まくらのそうし

The Pillow Book (by Sei Shonagon)

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封建, ほうけん

feudalistic

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万葉集, 萬葉集, まんようしゅう

Manyoushuu (famous 8thC poetry), Japan's oldest anthology of poems

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侍, さむらい, さぶらい

warrior (esp. of military retainers of daimyos in the Edo period), samurai, man in attendance (on a person of high standing), retainer

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