Japanese history - early modern

noun (common) (futsuumeishi)

administrator of a manor

village headman (Edo period)

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(late Edo-period) principle of excluding foreigners

noun (common) (futsuumeishi)

the shogun's eighty thousand guards, comprising hatamoto and lower-ranking vassals

noun (common) (futsuumeishi)

shogunal vassal; direct retainer of a shogun

noun (common) (futsuumeishi)

lower-ranking vassal in the Kamakura and Edo periods

noun (common) (futsuumeishi)

(Edo-period) humorous literature (humourous)

noun (common) (futsuumeishi)

tablet bearing Christian images, on which Edo-period authorities forced suspected Christians to trample

noun (common) (futsuumeishi)

temple elementary school (during the Edo period)

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(Edo-period) town magistrate

noun (common) (futsuumeishi)

ukiyoe (color print of everyday life in the Edo period) (colour)

noun (common) (futsuumeishi)

dandy; peacock; early-17th-century equivalent of present-day yakuza; Edo-period eccentric who attracted public attention with their eye-catching clothes, peculiar hairstyle, and weird behavior

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right of samurai to kill commoners for perceived affronts (Edo period)

noun (common) (futsuumeishi)

wife of a shogun or a highest-ranking nobleman

noun (common) (futsuumeishi)

(late Edo-period) idea of uniting the court and the shogunate

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shogunate marital union with the Imperial Family