[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)
[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
[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)
[そうびょう, soubyou] (n) ancestral shrine (temple); mausoleum (of one's ancestors); Imperial mausoleum
[せんくん, senkun] (n) previous ruler; ancestors
[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
[そびょう, sobyou] (n) mausoleum containing the remains of one's ancestors
[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
[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