[かみ, kami] (n) (See 国司, 長官・かみ) director (of the provincial governors under the ritsuryo system) #1747
[べん, ben] (n) (See 太政官, 弁官) Oversight Department (division of the daijokan responsible for controlling central and provincial governmental offices) #2917
[こっきょう(P);くにざかい;こっかい(国界;国堺)(ok), kokkyou (P); kunizakai ; kokkai ( kuni kai ; kuni sakai )(ok)] (n, adj-no) national border; provincial border; (P) #3982
[ふちゅう, fuchuu] (n) (1) provincial capital (under the ritsuryo system); provincial office; (2) public place of imperial rule #4713
[こくし;くにのつかさ, kokushi ; kuninotsukasa] (n) (See 守・かみ) provincial governor (under the ritsuryo system, any of a group of officials, esp. the director) #8016
[こくぶんじ, kokubunji] (n) (Nara Era) state-supported provincial temples; (P) #9340
[こくふ;こくぶ;こふ, kokufu ; kokubu ; kofu] (n) (1) (こくふ only) (abbr) (See 国民政府) Nationalist Government (of China; i.e. under the Kuomintang); (2) (See 律令制) provincial office (under the ritsuryo system); provincial capital #10922
[えびす, ebisu] (n) (1) (arch) (See 蝦夷) peoples formerly of northern Japan with distinct language and culture (i.e. the Ainu); (2) provincial (i.e. a person who lives far from the city); (3) brutish, unsophisticated warrior (esp. used by Kyoto samurai to refer to samurai from eastern Japan); (4) (derog) foreigner; barbarian #13165
[ずりょう;ずろう, zuryou ; zurou] (n) provincial governor (from the middle of the Heian period) #15021
[じゅんぎょう, jungyou] (n, vs) provincial tour; (P) #19461
[こくがく, kokugaku] (n) (1) study of (ancient) Japanese literature and culture; (2) (arch) (See 大学・2) provincial school (under Japan's ritsuryo system and pre-Sui Chinese law); (P) #19677
[あぜち;あんさつし(按察使), azechi ; ansatsushi ( an satsu shi )] (n) travelling inspector of the provincial governments (Nara- and Heian-period position)
[いのなかのかわずたいかいをしらず, inonakanokawazutaikaiwoshirazu] (exp) parochial; provincial; used to encourage someone to get a wider perspective
[いちのみや, ichinomiya] (n) (1) (arch) (See 一の御子) first-born imperial prince; (2) most important provincial shrine
[かいはつりょうしゅ;かいほつりょうしゅ(ok), kaihatsuryoushu ; kaihotsuryoushu (ok)] (n) local warriors, or provincial or district officials, who developed paddy field lands
[まるだし, marudashi] (n) bare; exposed; undisguised; broad (provincial accent)
[くにざむらい, kunizamurai] (n) provincial samurai
[こくふう;くにぶり, kokufuu ; kuniburi] (n) (1) national customs and manners; (2) provincial song or ballad
[こくへいしゃ, kokuheisha] (n) (obs) shrine receiving offerings from the provincial government (pre-Meiji) or the national treasury (post-Meiji)
[こくが, kokuga] (n) (1) (arch) (See 国司) provincial governor's office; (2) (abbr) (See 国衙領) provincial governorate (beginning in the late Heian period)
[こくがりょう, kokugaryou] (n) provincial governorate (beginning in the late Heian period)
[むらさきいがい;ムラサキイガイ, murasakiigai ; murasakiigai] (n) (uk) blue mussel (Mytilus galloprovincialis); Mediterranean mussel
[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)
[しゅうぎ, shuugi] (n) (abbr) (See 州議会) state legislature; state or provincial parliament
[しゅうぎかい, shuugikai] (n) state legislature; state or provincial parliament
[しゅうぎかいぎいん, shuugikaigiin] (n) state legislator; member of state parliament; member of a provincial assembly
[しゅうぎかいせんきょ, shuugikaisenkyo] (n) state or provincial election
[しゅうぎせん, shuugisen] (n) (abbr) (See 州議会) state or provincial election
[しゅうきょう, shuukyou] (n) state boundary; provincial boundary
[しゅうけいさつ, shuukeisatsu] (n) state police; provincial police
[じざむらい, jizamurai] (n) provincial samurai in the middle ages, who engaged in agriculture in peacetime
[ちほうばしょ, chihoubasho] (n) provincial sumo tournament, held outside Tokyo
[ちほうとし, chihoutoshi] (n) provincial city; provincial town; suburban city; regional towns and cities
[いなかまわり, inakamawari] (n, vs) (theatrical) provincial tour
[いなかかたぎ, inakakatagi] (n) rusticity; provincialism
[いなかしばい, inakashibai] (n) provincial theatrical performance
[いなかもの, inakamono] (n, adj-no) countryman; provincial; person from the country; provincial person; bumpkin; hick; hillbilly
[いなかくさい, inakakusai] (adj-i) cornball; rustic; unsophisticated; provincial; hick
[いなかだいじん, inakadaijin] (n) provincial (country) millionaire
[いなかなまり, inakanamari] (n) provincial accent
[とご, togo] (n) (1) (See 都護府) Protector General; Tang-period Chinese official in charge of the local Protectorate General; (2) (See 按察使) travelling inspector of the provincial governments (Nara- and Heian-period position)
[にのみや, ninomiya] (n) (1) (arch) (See 一の宮) second-born imperial prince; (2) second most important provincial shrine
[べんかん;おおともいのつかさ(ok), benkan ; ootomoinotsukasa (ok)] (n) (See 太政官) Oversight Department (division of the daijokan responsible for controlling central and provincial governmental offices)
[なまり, namari] (n) (1) (uk) accent (of one's speech); (2) dialect; provincialism; patois; (3) corrupted form (e.g. of word); mispronunciation; (P)