[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) #5417
[ごけにん, gokenin] (n) lower-ranking vassal in the Kamakura and Edo periods #16420
[やぐら, yagura] (n) (uk) caves dug as tombs in and around Kamakura during the Kamakura and Muromachi periods #19713
[あたけぶね, atakebune] (n) large warship of the Muromachi and early Edo periods
[いっこういっき, ikkouikki] (n) Jodo Shinshu Buddhist uprising (Muromachi and Warring States periods)
[いちばくじっかん, ichibakujikkan] (exp) (1) bursts of exertion will fail to bear fruit if interrupted by long periods of idleness; (2) strenuous efforts, unless sustained, are to no avail (Mencius)
[うだいじん, udaijin] (n) Minister of the Right (official in Nara and Heian periods)
[おうらいもの, ouraimono] (n) (arch) elementary school textbook, used from late Heian to early Meiji periods
[なんきも, nankimo] (n) many periods
[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)
[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))
[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)
[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)
[ごじきょう, gojikyou] (n) { Buddh } (See 五時八教) division of the Buddha's 50-year teachings into five periods (theory of the Tendai sect)
[ごじはっきょう, gojihakkyou] (n) { Buddh } (See 五時教) division of the Buddha's 50-year teachings into five time periods and eight categories (theory of the Tendai sect)
[ごや, goya] (n) (1) (arch) division of the night (from approx. 7 pm to 5 am) into five 2-hour periods; (2) the fifth of these periods (approx. 3 am to 5 am)
[ごさいえ;みさいえ, gosaie ; misaie] (n) (See 金光明最勝王経) imperial event at which high monks recited the Golden Light Sutra to pray for national security and good harvests (held annually at the palace from the 8th to the 14th of the first lunar month, between the Nara and Muromachi periods)
[こうちょうじゅうにせん, kouchoujuunisen] (n) twelve coinages minted in Japan during the Nara and Heian periods
[さだいじん, sadaijin] (n) Minister of the Left (official in Nara and Heian periods)
[さんだい, sandai] (n) (1) three generations; three periods; (2) third generation; (P)
[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)
[てらいり, terairi] (n) (1) (See 寺子屋) to enrol in a temple school; child enrolled in a temple school; (2) incarcerating a criminal in a temple as a form of punishment (popular during the latter Muromachi and Azuchi-Momoyama periods); (3) to go to a temple and repent (following a disaster, etc.)
[てらあずけ, teraazuke] (n) (obsc) (See 寺入り) incarcerating a criminal in a temple as a form of punishment (popular during the latter Muromachi and Azuchi-Momoyama periods)
[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
[だんぶくろ, danbukuro] (n) (1) large cloth sack; (2) baggy trousers (worn in the late-Edo and early-Meiji periods by samurai while practising)
[てつぞく, tetsuzoku] (n) iron arrow-head (from the Yayoi and Kofun periods)
[てんきまつり, tenkimatsuri] (n) ceremony held to pray for good weather (during long periods of rain)
[とらいしん, toraishin] (n) (See 渡来) deity that originated on the Asian mainland, particulalry the Korean Peninsula, during the Yayoi or Kofun Periods (e.g. Ame no Hiboko)
[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)
[ないきょうぼう, naikyoubou] (n) (arch) part of the imperial palace where dancing girls were trained (Nara and Heian periods)
[にき, niki] (n) two periods or terms; (P)
[にっそう, nissou] (n) (arch) journeying to Sung China during the Heian and Kamakura periods
[ぶけでんそう, bukedensou] (n) Imperial official in charge of communication between the shogunate and the court (during the Muromachi and Edo periods)
[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)
[ようぎん, yougin] (n) (1) German silver; nickel silver; (2) silver coinage imported to Japan during the late Edo and early Meiji periods
[りっこくし, rikkokushi] (n) Rikkokushi (the six ancient Japanese historical collections compiled between the Nara and Heian periods)
[ろくじ, rokuji] (n) (1) six o'clock; (2) { Buddh } (See 晨朝, 日中・1, 日没, 初夜, 中夜, 後夜・1) six periods of a day (morning, midday, afternoon, evening, midnight, late night)
[うんげん;うげん, ungen ; ugen] (n) method of dying in which a color repeatedly goes from dense to diffuse, diffuse to dense - imported from western China and used in Buddhist pictures, temple ornaments, etc., during the Nara and Heian periods