| お墨付き;御墨付き | [おすみつき, osumitsuki] (n) (1) (See 墨付き) handwriting; autograph; authorization; authorisation; (2) certificate; certified document; paper with signature of the shogun or lord |
| お膝元;お膝下;お膝許;御膝元;御膝下;御膝許;おひざ元 | [おひざもと, ohizamoto] (n) (See 膝元・ひざもと・3) home territory of a powerful figure; Imperial Court; businessman's turf; Shogun's headquarters |
| お蔵;お倉;御蔵;御倉 | [おくら;オクラ, okura ; okura] (n) (1) (See 蔵・くら) shelving (a play, movie, etc.); closing down; cancelling; canceling; the shelf; (2) rice storehouse of the Edo shogunate |
| ばらつき | [, baratsuki] (n) (Orig. 薔薇搗き rose petals scattered before shoguns marching in triumph) scattering (e.g. in statistics); a scatter; dispersion |
| 一国一城 | [いっこくいちじょう, ikkokuichijou] (n) (1) (possession of) one feudal domain and one castle; being independent (acting without compromise or assistance); (2) establishing only one castle in each feudal domain (edict issued by the shogunate in 1615) |
| 上 | [じょう, jou] (n,adj-no,n-adv,n-suf) (1) above; up; over; elder (e.g. daughter); (2) top; summit; (3) surface; on; (4) before; previous; (5) superiority; one's superior (i.e. one's elder); (6) on top of that; besides; what's more; (7) upon (further inspection, etc.); based on (and occurring after); (8) matters concerning...; as concerns ...; (9) (as ...上は) since (i.e. "for that reason"); (n-suf) (10) (hon) (See 父上) suffix indicating higher social standing; (11) (arch) place of one's superior (i.e. the throne); (12) (arch) emperor; sovereign; shogun; daimyo; (13) (arch) noblewoman (esp. the wife of a nobleman); (P) |
| 上使 | [じょうし, joushi] (n) shogun's envoy; emissary |
| 上意 | [じょうい, joui] (n) will or decree (esp. of shogun); emperor's wishes |
| 中小姓;中小性 | [ちゅうごしょう, chuugoshou] (n) low class samurai, who guarded the shogun on outings (Edo period) |
| 佐幕 | [さばく, sabaku] (n) adherence to the shogunate |
| 公武合体 | [こうぶがったい, koubugattai] (n) shogunate marital union with the Imperial Family |
| 副将軍 | [ふくしょうぐん, fukushougun] (n) lieutenant general; vice-shogun |
| 君沢形 | [きみさわがた, kimisawagata] (n) schooner style ship built at the end of the Shogunate |
| 吾妻鏡;東鑑 | [あずまかがみ;あづまかがみ, azumakagami ; adumakagami] (n) Japanese medieval text that chronicles events of the Kamakura Shogunate |
| 墨付き | [すみつき, sumitsuki] (n) (1) (See お墨付き) handwriting; autograph; authorization; authorisation; (2) certificate; certified document; paper with signature of the shogun or lord; (P) |
| 大君 | [たいくん, taikun] (n) liege lord; shogunate |
| 大奥 | [おおおく, oooku] (n) (See 江戸城) inner palace (in Edo Castle); palace's ladies chambers; shogun's harem |
| 天下 | [てんか(P);てんが;てんげ, tenka (P); tenga ; tenge] (n) (1) the whole world; (2) the whole country; (3) society; the public; (4) supremacy over a nation; government of a country; the ruling power; (5) having one's own way; doing as one pleases; (adj-no) (6) peerless; incomparable; superlative; world-famous; (n) (7) (arch) shogun (Edo period); (P) |
| 奉行 | [ぶぎょう, bugyou] (n,vs) magistrate; shogunate administrator; (P) |
| 官寺 | [かんじ, kanji] (n) state-sponsored temples, particularly those favored and protected by the shogunate during the Kamakura period |
| 定番 | [ていばん, teiban] (n,vs) (1) standing guard; watchman; (n) (2) watchman at the shogun's palaces (Edo period) |
| 将軍家 | [しょうぐんけ, shougunke] (n) family positioned to accede to the shogunate |
| 尊王討幕 | [そんのうとうばく, sonnoutoubaku] (n) reverence for the emperor and the overthrow of the shogunate |
| 徒士組;徒組 | [かちぐみ, kachigumi] (n) bodyguards in service of the shogun who would walk ahead of him on an outing(Edo period) |
| 徒士衆 | [かちしゅう, kachishuu] (n) (1) (See 徒侍) humble samurai who served as a body guard on foot; (2) (See 徒士組・かちぐみ) bodyguards in service of the shogun who would walk ahead of him on an outing(Edo period) |
| 御朱印;ご朱印 | [ごしゅいん, goshuin] (n) letter bearing the shogun's scarlet seal |
| 御殿女中;ご殿女中 | [ごてんじょちゅう, gotenjochuu] (n) waiting woman in a shogun or daimyo's palace |
| 愛妾 | [あいしょう, aishou] (n) (See めかけ) beloved concubine; favourite concubine (e.g. of the shogun) |
| 戊辰戦争 | [ぼしんせんそう, boshinsensou] (n) Boshin War (Japanese civil war between Imperial and shogunate forces, 1868-1869) |
| 旗本 | [はたもと, hatamoto] (n) shogunal vassal; direct retainer of a shogun |
| 旗本八万騎 | [はたもとはちまんき, hatamotohachimanki] (n) (arch) (See 旗本・はたもと) the shogun's eighty thousand guards, comprising hatamoto and lower-ranking vassals |
| 旧幕 | [きゅうばく, kyuubaku] (n) the old feudal government; shogunate |
| 本領安堵 | [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) |
| 王朝時代 | [おうちょうじだい, ouchoujidai] (n) (See 武家時代) Dynastic period (the Nara period and esp. the Heian period, characterized by the rule of the emperor as opposed to shogunate) |
| 異人館 | [いじんかん, ijinkan] (n) Western style residences built mostly for early foreign settlers during the end of the Shogunate and the Meiji era |
| 移封 | [いほう, ihou] (n,vs) forced relocation of a daimyo to a different domain by the Edo shogunate |
| 西の丸 | [にしのまる, nishinomaru] (n) (See 江戸城) western citadel; west wing of the Edo castle (where the heir apparent or retired shogun would live) |
| 開成所 | [かいせいじょ, kaiseijo] (n) Kaiseijo (school of foreign studies set up by the shogunate during the Edo period) |
| 闇将軍 | [やみしょうぐん, yamishougun] (n) behind-the-scenes fixer; éminence grise; kingmaker; wire-puller; (lit) shadow shogun |