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] |
将軍 | [しょうぐん, shougun] (n) general; shogun; (P) #1,913 [Add to Longdo] |
幕府 | [ばくふ, bakufu] (n) bakufu; shogunate; (P) #2,129 [Add to Longdo] |
幕末 | [ばくまつ, bakumatsu] (n) closing days of the Tokugawa shogunate; end of Edo era; (P) #4,617 [Add to Longdo] |
奉行 | [ぶぎょう, bugyou] (n, vs) magistrate; shogunate administrator; (P) #5,607 [Add to Longdo] |
天下 | [てんか(P);てんが;てんげ, tenka (P); tenga ; tenge] (n) (1) the whole world; (2) the whole country; (3) society; the public; (4) supremacy over a nation; government of a country; the ruling power; (5) having one's own way; doing as one pleases; (adj-no) (6) peerless; incomparable; superlative; world-famous; (n) (7) (arch) shogun (Edo period); (P) #6,631 [Add to Longdo] |
旗本 | [はたもと, hatamoto] (n) shogunal vassal; direct retainer of a shogun #7,777 [Add to Longdo] |
定番 | [ていばん, teiban] (n, vs) (1) standing guard; watchman; (n) (2) watchman at the shogun's palaces (Edo period) #12,595 [Add to Longdo] |
大奥 | [おおおく, oooku] (n) (See 江戸城) inner palace (in Edo Castle); palace's ladies chambers; shogun's harem #13,456 [Add to Longdo] |
戊辰戦争 | [ぼしんせんそう, boshinsensou] (n) Boshin War (Japanese civil war between Imperial and shogunate forces, 1868-1869) #16,984 [Add to Longdo] |