[ぜんしん, zenshin] (n) antecedents; ancestor; previous position; previous existence; predecessor organization; predecessor organisation; (P) #2093
[そ, so] (n) ancestor; forefather; progenitor; (P) #3762
[せんぞ, senzo] (n, adj-no) ancestor; (P) #9768
[そせん, sosen] (n) ancestor; (P) #10911
[しぞく, shizoku] (n) (See 華族・かぞく) family or person with samurai ancestors #18358
[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) #18924
[おはかまいり, ohakamairi] (n) ritual visit to the tomb of one's ancestors (bringing flowers, burning incense, cleansing the tombstone)
[o-rokkusu] (n) aurochs; urus (extinct ancestor of the modern cow, Bos taurus)
[いはいをけがす, ihaiwokegasu] (exp, v5s) to disgrace one's ancestors; to tarnish the honour of one's ancestors
[いとく, itoku] (n) benefit from ancestors' virtue
[えんそ, enso] (n) forefathers; remote ancestors
[きゅうちゅうさんでん, kyuuchuusanden] (n) the palace sanctuary, shrine of imperial ancestors and temple inside the Japanese imperial palace
[ちをひく, chiwohiku] (exp, v5k) to be descended from; to inherit (a disposition, etc.) from one's ancestors
[げんぎゅう, gengyuu] (n) (See オーロックス) aurochs; urus (extinct ancestor of the modern cow, Bos taurus)
[こうそう, kousou] (n) imperial ancestors
[こうそこうそう, kousokousou] (n) ancestors of the Imperial Family
[こうれいさい, koureisai] (n) equinoctial ceremony held by the emperor at the shrine of imperial ancestors
[こうれいでん, koureiden] (n) shrine of imperial ancestors
[たままつり;れいさい(霊祭), tamamatsuri ; reisai ( rei matsuri )] (n) (See 盂蘭盆) ceremony honouring the spirits of ancestors (esp. the Bon festival)
[じぶつどう, jibutsudou] (n) (See 仏間) hall or room where a private Buddha statue or ancestor tablets are kept
[そうびょう, soubyou] (n) ancestral shrine (temple); mausoleum (of one's ancestors); Imperial mausoleum
[しゅうきこうれいさい, shuukikoureisai] (n) (See 秋分の日) imperial ceremony of ancestor worship formerly held on the autumnal equinox
[しゅんきこうれいさい, shunkikoureisai] (n) (See 春分の日) imperial ceremony of ancestor worship formerly held on the vernal equinox
[じょういグループ, joui guru-pu] (n) { comp } ancestor
[しんそ, shinso] (n) (1) true ancestor; (2) var. of vampire (in fiction)
[さきつおや, sakitsuoya] (n) ancestor
[さきのおや, sakinooya] (n) ancestor
[せんくん, senkun] (n) previous ruler; ancestors
[せんじん, senjin] (n) predecessor; pioneer; ancestor; (P)
[せんぞこうぞうたい, senzokouzoutai] (n) { comp } ancestor structure
[そそう, sosou] (n) ancestors
[そせんのれいをまつる, sosennoreiwomatsuru] (exp, v5r) to perform religious services for the departed souls of one's ancestors
[そせんすうはい, sosensuuhai] (n) ancestor worship
[そびょう, sobyou] (n) mausoleum containing the remains of one's ancestors
[それい, sorei] (n) (1) ancestral spirit; collective of ancestral spirits which have lost their individualities; (2) ancestor deified as a kami; spirit of a kami
[そんぞく, sonzoku] (n) direct ancestors; noble ancestors
[ちゃごと;ちゃじ;さじ, chagoto ; chaji ; saji] (n) (1) tea gathering (for the tea ceremony); (2) some matter concerning tea; (3) family tea gathering held in memory of deceased ancestors
[ちゅうこうのそ, chuukounoso] (n) ancestor who rejuvenated a dynasty or a family
[あまつみおや, amatsumioya] (n) imperial ancestor
[どうそ, douso] (n, adj-no) common ancestor
[はんそ, hanso] (n) (arch) ancestor of a feudal lord
[ひそうぞくにん, hisouzokunin] (n) ancestor; inheritee
[ふだいだいみょう, fudaidaimyou] (n) hereditary daimyo (whose ancestors supported Tokugawa Ieyasu prior to the battle of Sekigahara)
[ほんしょうじん, honshoujin] (n) (1) (China) someone from one's own province; (2) (Taiwan) someone whose ancestors had lived in Taiwan before the Kuomintang related immigration wave
[よとく, yotoku] (n) influence of great virtue; influence of ancestors
[よれつ, yoretsu] (n) ancestor's meritorious deeds; the evil effects of the lives of our predecessors