サムライ債 | [サムライさい, samurai sai] (n) samurai loan; yen-denominated loan |
ちゃんばら映画 | [ちゃんばらえいが, chanbaraeiga] (n) samurai movie |
ろにん(ik) | [, ronin (ik)] (n) (1) (misspelling of ろうにん) (See 浪人) ronin; wandering samurai without a master to serve; (2) out of work; (3) waiting for another chance to enter a university |
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) |
中間;仲間 | [ちゅうげん, chuugen] (n,adj-no) samurai's attendant; footman |
侍蟻 | [さむらいあり;サムライアリ, samuraiari ; samuraiari] (n) (uk) Polyergus samurai (species of amazon ant) |
円建て外債 | [えんだてがいさい, endategaisai] (n) yen-denominated loan; samurai bond |
加禄 | [かろく, karoku] (n) increase in a samurai's stipend |
卒 | [そつ, sotsu] (n) (1) low-ranking soldier; (2) (abbr) (See 卒業) graduation; (3) (abbr) (See 卒族) low-ranking samurai (1870-1872); (4) (abbr) (See 卒去) death (of a noble, etc.) |
古強者;古武士;古兵 | [ふるつわもの;こへい(古兵);こぶし(古武士), furutsuwamono ; kohei ( ko hei ); kobushi ( ko bushi )] (n) (1) (こぶし only) feudal warrior; samurai; (2) old soldier; veteran; old hand |
四民 | [しみん, shimin] (n) the four social classes (samurai, farmers, artisans, merchants); the masses |
国侍 | [くにざむらい, kunizamurai] (n) provincial samurai |
地侍;地士 | [じざむらい, jizamurai] (n) provincial samurai in the middle ages, who engaged in agriculture in peacetime |
士庶 | [ししょ, shisho] (n) (1) samurai and commoners; (2) normal people (as opposed to people of a high social standing) |
士農工商 | [しのうこうしょう, shinoukoushou] (n) hierarchy of samurai, farmers, artisans, and merchants in Edo society |
士道 | [しどう, shidou] (n) chivalry; samurai code |
夷;戎 | [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 |
奴 | [やつ(P);しゃつ(ok), yatsu (P); shatsu (ok)] (n) (1) servant (esp. a samurai's attendant); (2) chivalrous man (c. Edo period); (3) (abbr) (See 奴豆腐) cubed tofu (often served cold); (4) (abbr) (See 奴凧) kite shaped like a footman; (5) (abbr) (See 奴頭) Edo-period hairstyle worn by samurai's attendants; (6) enslavement (of a woman; Edo-period punishment for her own or her husband's crime); (pn) (7) (arch) (derog) he; she; him; her |
家務 | [かむ, kamu] (n) (1) family affairs; family business; (2) steward in charge of the affairs of a samurai family (middle ages) |
小走り | [こばしり, kobashiri] (n,adv,vs) (1) trot; half run; jog; (2) girl in charge of menial tasks in a samurai family |
帯刀御免 | [たいとうごめん, taitougomen] (n) a non-samurai being granted the privilege of wearing a sword (during the 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) |
斬り捨て御免;切り捨て御免;斬捨て御免;切捨て御免;斬捨御免(io);切捨御免(io) | [きりすてごめん, kirisutegomen] (n) right of samurai to kill commoners for perceived affronts (Edo period) |
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) |
武士道 | [ぶしどう, bushidou] (n) Bushido; samurai code of chivalry |
武家奉公 | [ぶけぼうこう, bukeboukou] (n) service with a samurai family; serving in a samurai household (as a valet, chambermaid, etc.) |
武者修業 | [むしゃしゅぎょう, mushashugyou] (n) samurai drill; knight errantry |
段袋;駄袋 | [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) |
浪人 | [ろうにん, rounin] (n,vs,adj-no) (1) ronin; wandering samurai without a master to serve; (2) out of work; (3) waiting for another chance to enter a university; (P) |
犬侍 | [いぬざむらい, inuzamurai] (n) cowardly or depraved samurai |
用人 | [ようにん, younin] (n) (1) (See 御用人) manager; steward; factotum; person next in rank to the chief retainers and in charge of general management and accounting in a samurai family (Edo period); (2) useful person |
組屋敷 | [くみやしき, kumiyashiki] (n) (See 与力,同心・3) residence for low class samurai enrolled in one of the police forces (Edo period) |
肩衣 | [かたぎぬ, kataginu] (n) (1) (See 素襖) sleeveless ceremonial robe for samurai (replacing the Muromachi period suou); (2) (arch) sleeveless robe worn by commoners |
脇侍;脇士;夾侍;挟侍(oK) | [きょうじ;わきじ(脇侍;脇士), kyouji ; wakiji ( waki samurai ; waki samurai )] (n) flanking attendant to the main deity of veneration in a temple |
芋侍 | [いもざむらい, imozamurai] (n) rustic (boorish) samurai |
部屋子 | [へやご, heyago] (n) (1) (See 部屋住み) young adult still living at home; dependent; (2) (See 部屋方) female servant working for a lady-in-waiting working in the inner part of a lord's house (Edo period); (3) freeloader living in a samurai's house; (4) young kabuki actor in service of a master (Edo period) |
食い上げ | [くいあげ, kuiage] (n) (1) losing the means of livelihood; (2) (arch) a samurai's annual rice stipend being suspended; (3) (in fishing) the fish swimming upward after biting the fishhook |
首切り;首斬り | [くびきり, kubikiri] (n) (1) (sens) decapitation; beheading; (2) firings; dismissals; layoffs; downsizing; (3) small samurai sword used for decapitation |
鮒侍 | [ふなざむらい, funazamurai] (n) cowardly, good-for-nothing samurai from the countryside |