| 守護 | [しゅご;すご(ok), shugo ; sugo (ok)] (n, vs, adj-no) (1) protection; safeguard; (n) (2) shugo (Kamakura or Muromachi period military governor) #4,744 [Add to Longdo] |
| 使 | [し, shi] (n) (1) messenger; (2) (abbr) (See 検非違使) police and judicial chief (Heian and Kamakura periods); (3) { Buddh } (See 煩悩・2) klesha (polluting thoughts such as greed, hatred and delusion, which result in suffering) #5,417 [Add to Longdo] |
| 御家人;ご家人 | [ごけにん, gokenin] (n) lower-ranking vassal in the Kamakura and Edo periods #16,420 [Add to Longdo] |
| 矢倉;岩倉;窟 | [やぐら, yagura] (n) (uk) caves dug as tombs in and around Kamakura during the Kamakura and Muromachi periods #19,713 [Add to Longdo] |
| いざ鎌倉 | [いざかまくら, izakamakura] (n) case that something major happens; event of an emergency; when it comes to the crunch [Add to Longdo] |
| かまくら | [kamakura] (n) mid-January festival in northern Japan, with snow huts in which children play house; (P) [Add to Longdo] |
| 遠侍 | [とおさぶらい, toosaburai] (n) (See 武家造) guard house in a samurai style house (Kamakura period) [Add to Longdo] |
| 家司 | [けいし;けし;いえづかさ, keishi ; keshi ; iedukasa] (n) (1) steward in charge of the affairs of nobles of the third rank and higher (from the middle of the Heian period); (2) (See 政所・3) administrative position (Kamakura and Muromachi periods) [Add to Longdo] |
| 鎌倉五山 | [かまくらござん, kamakuragozan] (n) (See 京都五山) the five great Rinzai temples of Kamakura (Kencho-ji, Engaku-ji, Jufuku-ji, Jochi-ji, Jomyo-ji) [Add to Longdo] |
| 鎌倉時代 | [かまくらじだい, kamakurajidai] (n) Kamakura period (1185-1333 CE) [Add to Longdo] |
| 鎌倉新仏教 | [かまくらしんぶっきょう, kamakurashinbukkyou] (n) new schools of Japanese Buddhism founded during the Kamakura period [Add to Longdo] |
| 鎌倉彫り | [かまくらぼり, kamakurabori] (n) carvings of the Kamakura style [Add to Longdo] |
| 鎌倉幕府 | [かまくらばくふ, kamakurabakufu] (n) Kamakura shogunate (1185-1333 CE) [Add to Longdo] |
| 官寺 | [かんじ, kanji] (n) state-sponsored temples, particularly those favored and protected by the shogunate during the Kamakura period [Add to Longdo] |
| 弓場始め | [ゆばはじめ, yubahajime] (n) (1) ceremony on the fifth day of the 10th lunar month in which the emperor would watch prize archery (Heian and Kamakura periods); (2) first firing of the bow (after the New Year or the reconstruction of the archery range (in military families)) [Add to Longdo] |
| 検非違使 | [けびいし;けんびいし;けいびいし, kebiishi ; kenbiishi ; keibiishi] (n) police and judicial chief (Heian and Kamakura periods) [Add to Longdo] |
| 犬追物 | [いぬおうもの, inuoumono] (n) dog-hunting event of Kamakura period [Add to Longdo] |
| 古備前 | [こびぜん, kobizen] (n) (1) Bizen sword (mid-Heian to early Kamakura periods); (2) (See 備前焼) ancient Bizen ware (Kamakura to early Momoyama periods) [Add to Longdo] |
| 五摂家 | [ごせっけ, gosekke] (n) (See 摂関) 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 [Add to Longdo] |
| 五斗味噌 | [ごとみそ, gotomiso] (n) (obsc) miso from the Kamakura era [Add to Longdo] |
| 吾妻鏡;東鑑 | [あずまかがみ;あづまかがみ, azumakagami ; adumakagami] (n) Japanese medieval text that chronicles events of the Kamakura Shogunate [Add to Longdo] |
| 高枕 | [たかまくら, takamakura] (n) high pillow [Add to Longdo] |
| 祭文 | [さいぶん;さいもん, saibun ; saimon] (n) address to the gods; type of song which spread from mountain hermits to the laity during the Kamakura era [Add to Longdo] |
| 細工所 | [さいくじょ;さいくどころ, saikujo ; saikudokoro] (n) (1) (さいくじょ only) (See 工房) workshop; (2) Heian and Kamakura-period furniture workshop (established in temples and various government bodies); (3) Edo period office which administered tenders for arms, armor, etc. [Add to Longdo] |
| 雑芸 | [ざつげい;ぞうげい, zatsugei ; zougei] (n) (1) (See 猿楽・さるがく・1) various form of arts (e.g. acrobatics, magic, puppetery, sarugaku acrobatics performance); (2) (See 歌謡) miscellaneous songs popular from the end of the Heian period to the Kamakura period [Add to Longdo] |
| 侍所 | [さむらいどころ;さぶらいどころ, samuraidokoro ; saburaidokoro] (n) (1) (esp. さむらいどころ) Board of Retainers; Kamakura- and Muromachi-period government office; (2) (esp. さぶらいどころ) samurai guard house (Heian and Kamakura periods) [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] |
| 夙;宿;守公;守宮 | [しゅく, shuku] (n, adj-no) (See 畿内, 賤民) outcasts (those from Kamakura period to the Edo period, common around the Kyoto region) [Add to Longdo] |
| 政所 | [まんどころ;まどころ;まつりごとどころ, mandokoro ; madokoro ; matsurigotodokoro] (n) (1) official in charge of the administration of domains and general affairs of powerful noble families (from the middle of the Heian period); (2) (hon) (abbr) (See 北の政所) titled lady (legal wife of an important official); (3) government office related to finances (Kamakura and Muromachi periods); (4) clerk working for large temples and shrines [Add to Longdo] |
| 総領;惣領;總領(oK) | [そうりょう, souryou] (n) (1) eldest child; oldest child; first-born child; (2) child who carries on the family name; (3) (arch) (See 律令制, 総領・すべおさ) pre-ritsuryo official established in key provinces, responsible for administration of his home and surrounding provinces; (4) (arch) head of a warrior clan (Kamakura period) [Add to Longdo] |
| 探題 | [たんだい, tandai] (n) local commissioner (Kamakura or Muromachi eras); composing poetry by lot [Add to Longdo] |
| 男舞 | [おとこまい, otokomai] (n) (1) dance where a female dancer dresses up as a man (late Heian to early Kamakura period); (2) noh dance performed by a man without a mask [Add to Longdo] |
| 徳政令 | [とくせいれい, tokuseirei] (n) (arch) debt cancellation order issued by the Emperor or the Shogun (during the Muromachi and Kamakura periods) [Add to Longdo] |
| 入宋 | [にっそう, nissou] (n) (arch) journeying to Sung China during the Heian and Kamakura periods [Add to Longdo] |
| 武家造り;武家造 | [ぶけづくり, bukedukuri] (n) samurai-house style (Kamakura period) [Add to Longdo] |
| 本領安堵 | [ほんりょうあんど, honryouando] (n) recognition and guarantee, by the shogunate, of ownership of the inherited estate of a samurai who pledged allegiance to it (in the Kamakura and early Muromachi periods) [Add to Longdo] |
| 問注所 | [もんちゅうじょ;もんじゅうしょ, monchuujo ; monjuusho] (n) (arch) High Court (of Kamakura); Board of Inquiry [Add to Longdo] |
| 揉烏帽子 | [もみえぼし, momieboshi] (n) (See 烏帽子) soft, crumpled, unlacquered headwear (often worn by soldiers under their helmets from the Kamakura period onward) [Add to Longdo] |
