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Characters Pronunciation
Romanization
Simple Dictionary Definition

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shì
    shi4
shih
 hito
    ひと

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Samurai
to serve; to attend upon
warrior (esp. of military retainers of daimyos in the Edo period); samurai; (1) warrior (esp. of military retainers of daimyos in the Edo period); samurai; (2) (archaism) man in attendance (on a person of high standing); retainer; (given name) Hito
Attend; wait on; attendant.

武士

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wǔ shì
    wu3 shi4
wu shih
 mononofu
    もののふ

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Warrior
warrior; samurai
(poetic term) warrior; soldier; samurai; (place-name) Mononofu

浪人

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làng rén
    lang4 ren2
lang jen
 rounin / ronin
    ろうにん

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Ronin / Masterless Samurai
vagrant; unemployed person; rōnin (wandering masterless samurai)
(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; (given name) Rounin

騎士


骑士

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qí shì
    qi2 shi4
ch`i shih
    chi shih
 kishi
    きし

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Knight
knight; cavalier; (Tw) bike rider (scooter, bicycle etc)
(1) (hist) (medieval) knight; (2) (hist) samurai on horseback; (female given name) Naito

武士道

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wǔ shì dào
    wu3 shi4 dao4
wu shih tao
 bushidou / bushido
    ぶしどう

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Bushido / The Way of the Samurai
bushidō or way of the warrior, samurai code of chivalry
Bushido; samurai code of chivalry

花は桜木人は武士

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 hanahasakuragihitohabushi
    はなはさくらぎひとはぶし
(expression) (proverb) the best flowers are the cherry blossoms, the best individuals are the samurai; as the cherry blossom is first among flowers, so is the samurai first among men

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    zu2
tsu
 sotsu
    そつ
soldier; servant; to finish; to die; finally; at last; pawn in Chinese chess
(1) (hist) low-ranking soldier; (n-suf,n) (2) (abbreviation) (See 卒業・1) graduation; (n-suf,n-pref) (3) (abbreviation) (See 卒業・2) moving on (from); outgrowing (something); (4) (abbreviation) (hist) (See 卒族) low-ranking samurai (1870-1872); (5) (abbreviation) (See 卒去) death (of a noble, etc.); (given name) Sosu
suddenly

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shì
    shi4
shih
 shi
    し
member of the senior ministerial class (old); scholar (old); bachelor; honorific; soldier; noncommissioned officer; specialist worker
(1) man (esp. one who is well-respected); (2) (See 侍・1) samurai; (suffix noun) (3) person (in a certain profession, esp. licensed); member; (personal name) Mamoru
A gentleman, scholar, officer.

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róng
    rong2
jung
 munemori
    むねもり
generic term for weapons (old); army (matters); military affairs
Ebisu; god of fishing and commerce; (1) (archaism) 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) (derogatory term) foreigner; barbarian; (personal name) Munemori

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bèi
    bei4
pei
 hoshii / hoshi
    ほしい
food for a journey; cakes
dried boiled rice used mainly as provisions of samurai troops and travelers (travellers); (place-name, surname) Hoshii

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 kamishimo
    かみしも
samurai costume; old ceremonial costume; (surname) Kamishimo

三一

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sān yī
    san1 yi1
san i
 sanpin
    さんぴん
(1) (abbreviation) (derogatory term) (See 三一侍) low-ranking samurai; (2) (orig. meaning) rolling three and one (in a dice game); (given name) Mitsukazu
Trinity; also 31.

両個

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 ryanko
    りゃんこ
(1) two; (2) (archaism) (derogatory term) samurai

中臈

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 chuurou / churo
    ちゅうろう
(1) court ladies of the middle rank serving in the inner palace (Heian period); (2) female servant for a samurai family; (3) lady-in-waiting working in the inner palace of the Edo castle (Edo period)

侍所

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 samuraidokoro; saburaidokoro
    さむらいどころ; さぶらいどころ
(1) (hist) (esp. さむらいどころ) Board of Retainers (Kamakura and Muromachi-period government office); (2) (hist) (esp. さぶらいどころ) samurai guard house (Heian and Kamakura periods)

侍蟻

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 samuraiari; samuraiari
    さむらいあり; サムライアリ
(kana only) Polyergus samurai (species of amazon ant)

其許

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 sokomoto
    そこもと
(1) (archaism) that place; there; (pn,adj-no) (2) you (usu. used by samurai when speaking to their equals or inferiors)

出府

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 shuppu
    しゅっぷ
(n,vs,vi) (hist) going to the capital (esp. of a samurai or daimyo during the Edo period)

切腹

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qiē fù
    qie1 fu4
ch`ieh fu
    chieh fu
 seppuku
    せっぷく
harakiri (formal Japanese: seppuku), a samurai's suicide by disemboweling
(noun/participle) (1) seppuku; harakiri; ritual suicide by disembowelment; (noun/participle) (2) (hist) seppuku as a death penalty (where the convict is decapitated by a second as they make the motions to disembowel themself; Edo period)

剣劇

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 kengeki
    けんげき
sword play; samurai drama

加禄

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 karoku
    かろく
increase in a samurai's stipend

卒族

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 sotsuzoku
    そつぞく
low-ranking samurai (1870-1872)

取り

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 dori
    どり
    tori
    とり
(suffix noun) (1) samurai receiving this much rice as a fee; (2) offering of rice cake containing this much rice; (3) (obsolete) person receiving this amount of money as a salary; (n,n-suf) (1) taking; taker; collecting; collector; remover; removal; (2) last performer of the day (usu. the star performer); last performance of the day; (3) active partner (e.g. in judo demonstration); (prefix) (4) emphatic or formal prefix

四民

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sì mín
    si4 min2
ssu min
 shimin
    しみん
"the four classes" of ancient China, i.e. scholars, farmers, artisans, and merchants
(hist) the four social classes (of Edo-period Japan; samurai, farmers, artisans, merchants)
four classes of people

国人

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 kokujin(p); kunibito; kokunin; kuniudo; kunyuudo / kokujin(p); kunibito; kokunin; kuniudo; kunyudo
    こくじん(P); くにびと; こくにん; くにうど; くにゅうど
(1) indigenous person; inhabitant of a country; (2) (くにびと only) local; native; (3) (hist) local lords and samurai; (4) (くにうど, くにゅうど only) (hist) (See 在国衆) daimyo who did not leave his domains to meet the shogun in Kyoto (during the Muromachi period); (given name) Kunihito

国侍

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 kunizamurai
    くにざむらい
(hist) provincial samurai

地侍

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 jizamurai
    じざむらい
provincial samurai in the middle ages, who engaged in agriculture in peacetime

地士

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 jizamurai
    じざむらい
provincial samurai in the middle ages, who engaged in agriculture in peacetime

士人

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shì rén
    shi4 ren2
shih jen
 shijin
    しじん
scholar
(1) samurai; (2) person of extensive learning; person of great culture; person of superior social standing
a person of extensive learning

士分

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 shibun
    しぶん
status of samurai

士庶

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 shisho
    ししょ
(1) samurai and commoners; (2) normal people (as opposed to people of a high social standing)

士族

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shì zú
    shi4 zu2
shih tsu
 shizoku
    しぞく
land-owning class, esp. during Wei, Jin and North-South dynasties 魏晉南北朝|魏晋南北朝[Wei4 Jin4 Nan2 Bei3 Chao2]
(1) family of samurai lineage; person with samurai ancestors; (2) (hist) (See 族称) shizoku; the second of three official classes in Japan in 1869-1947, consisting of former samurai

士民

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 shimin
    しみん
samurai and common people

士道

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 shidou / shido
    しどう
chivalry; samurai code; (given name) Shidō

士魂

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 shikon
    しこん
manly spirit; soul of a samurai

奴頭

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 yakkoatama
    やっこあたま
(See 奴・やっこ・1) Edo-period hairstyle worn by samurai's attendants

家務


家务

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jiā wù
    jia1 wu4
chia wu
 kamu
    かむ
household duties; housework
(1) family affairs; family business; (2) steward in charge of the affairs of a samurai family (middle ages)

小者

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 komono
    こもの
(1) young person; (2) servant; errand boy in a samurai family; (3) person of lowly status

徒侍

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 kachizamurai
    かちざむらい
humble samurai who served as a body guard on foot

徒士

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 kajishi
    かじし
foot soldier (Edo period); samurai on foot; (place-name) Kajishi

御薪

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 mikamagi
    みかまぎ
(1) (archaism) kindling burned in shrines and temples; (2) (archaism) special kindling used in samurai families during the Edo period for the 15th of the first month and painted with 12 brush strokes (13 on a lucky year); (3) (archaism) kindling offered by officials to the imperial court during the ritsuryō period

御辺

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 gohen; onatari
    ごへん; おんあたり
(pronoun) (archaism) (polite language) (usu. used by samurai to their equals or people of slightly higher standing) you; (surname) Onbe

志士

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 shishi
    しし
(1) (hist) imperial loyalist samurai of the Bakumatsu-era; (2) patriots; idealists willing to sacrifice themselves for the good of the nation; (personal name) Shishi

扇腹

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 ougibara / ogibara
    おうぎばら
(hist) (See 切腹・1) fan seppuku; death penalty for samurai in which the condemned performs a symbolic disembowelment with a fan before being decapitated

扶持

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fú chí
    fu2 chi2
fu ch`ih
    fu chih
 fuchi
    ふち
to help; to assist
(1) (hist) salary (paid in rice to a samurai); stipend; (noun, transitive verb) (2) (hist) making (someone) a retainer and granting a stipend

折助

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 orisuke
    おりすけ
(hist) manservant employed by a samurai (Edo period)

拙者

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 sessha
    せっしゃ
(pronoun) (humble language) (archaism) (masculine speech) (primarily used by samurai) I; me

改易

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gǎi yì
    gai3 yi4
kai i
 kaieki
    かいえき
to change; to modify
(noun, transitive verb) (hist) loss of samurai status and confiscation of territory and property (Edo-period punishment)

新造

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xīn zào
    xin1 zao4
hsin tsao
 shinzou; shinzo / shinzo; shinzo
    しんぞう; しんぞ
newly made
(noun, transitive verb) (1) construction; building; (2) (See 新造船) newly built ship; new boat; (3) (dated) (another's) wife (usu. young); (4) (dated) young, unmarried woman; (5) (obsolete) wife of a samurai or wealthy tradesman; (6) (archaism) young prostitute who has just started working (as an assistant to an older prostitute); (surname, given name) Shinzou

武問

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 bumon
    ぶもん
samurai's lineage

武夫

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 bufu
    ぶふ
warrior; soldier; samurai; (given name) Masuo

武家

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 buke
    ぶけ
(1) samurai family; samurai class; samurai stock; (2) (See 武士) samurai; warrior

段袋

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 danbukuro
    だんぶくろ
(1) large cloth sack; (2) baggy trousers (worn in the late-Edo and early-Meiji periods by samurai while practising)

水裃

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 mizukamishimo
    みずかみしも
light blue samurai costume commonly worn when committing suicide

浪士

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 roushi / roshi
    ろうし
ronin; lordless samurai

牢人

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 rounin / ronin
    ろうにん
(n,vs,adj-no) ronin; wandering samurai without a master to serve

犬侍

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 inuzamurai
    いぬざむらい
cowardly or depraved samurai

献残

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 kenzan
    けんざん
left-overs from gifts received by samurai or feudal lords (Edo period)

猿頬

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 saruboo
    さるぼお
(1) cheek pouch (monkey, squirrel, etc.); (2) iron mask that covers the chin and cheeks (worn by samurai); (3) (abbreviation) Anadara kagoshimensis (species of ark clam)

用人

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yòng rén
    yong4 ren2
yung jen
 younin / yonin
    ようにん
servant; to employ sb for a job; to manage people; to be in need of staff
(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

白札

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 shirofuda
    しろふだ
(1) white label; white tag; (2) white card (in karuta); blank card; (3) honour awarded to samurai in Tosa

禄高

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 rokudaka
    ろくだか
(amount of a samurai's) stipend

素袍

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 suou / suo
    すおう
suou (ceremonial dress of lower-class samurai)

素襖

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 suou / suo
    すおう
suou (ceremonial dress of lower-class samurai)

肩衣

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 kataginu
    かたぎぬ
(1) (hist) (See 素襖) sleeveless ceremonial robe for samurai (replacing the Muromachi-period suō); (2) (archaism) short, sleeveless robe worn by commoners

脱藩

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 dappan
    だっぱん
(n,vs,vi) (hist) becoming a lordless samurai

芋侍

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 imozamurai
    いもざむらい
rustic samurai; boorish samurai

若侍

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 wakazamurai
    わかざむらい
young samurai

諸士

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 shoshi
    しょし
many samurai; many gentlefolk

足軽

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 ashigaru
    あしがる
(hist) common foot soldier (feudal Japan); samurai of the lowest rank

遠侍

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 toosaburai
    とおさぶらい
(See 武家造) guard house in a samurai style house (Kamakura period)

郷士

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 goushi / goshi
    ごうし
country samurai; (personal name) Satoshi

鉄面

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 kanamen; tetsumen
    かなめん; てつめん
iron mask (worn by samurai)

駄袋

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 danbukuro
    だんぶくろ
(1) large cloth sack; (2) baggy trousers (worn in the late-Edo and early-Meiji periods by samurai while practising)

鮒侍

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 funazamurai
    ふなざむらい
cowardly, good-for-nothing samurai from the countryside

どうれ

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 doure / dore
    どうれ
(interjection) (archaism) (used in samurai families in response to a visitor who has asked to be shown inside) come in; welcome

ろにん

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 ronin
    ろにん
(ik) (1) ronin; wandering samurai without a master to serve; (2) out of work; (3) waiting for another chance to enter a university

七武士

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qī wǔ shì
    qi1 wu3 shi4
ch`i wu shih
    chi wu shih
Seven Samurai (movie)

三一侍

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 sanpinzamurai
    さんぴんざむらい
(derogatory term) low-ranking samurai; samurai of the lowest rank

三一奴

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 sanpinyakko
    さんぴんやっこ
(derogatory term) (See 三一侍) low-ranking samurai

中小姓

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 chuugoshou / chugosho
    ちゅうごしょう
low class samurai, who guarded the shogun on outings (Edo period)

中小性

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 chuugoshou / chugosho
    ちゅうごしょう
low class samurai, who guarded the shogun on outings (Edo period)

乾し飯

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 hoshiii / hoshii
    ほしいい
dried boiled rice used mainly as provisions of samurai troops and travelers (travellers)

二本差

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 nihonzashi
    にほんざし
two-sworded (samurai)

侍大将

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 saburaidaishou; samuraidaishou / saburaidaisho; samuraidaisho
    さぶらいだいしょう; さむらいだいしょう
(hist) samurai general (esp. during the Sengoku period)

侍気質

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 samuraikatagi
    さむらいかたぎ
samurai spirit

其処許

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 sokomoto
    そこもと
(1) (archaism) that place; there; (pn,adj-no) (2) you (usu. used by samurai when speaking to their equals or inferiors)

切り得

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 kiridoku
    きりどく
no retribution for a samurai killing a commoner

古武士

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 furutsuwamono
    ふるつわもの
    kobushi
    こぶし
old soldier; veteran; old hand; (1) feudal warrior; samurai; (2) old soldier; veteran; old hand

合当理

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 gattari
    がったり
(hist) (See 指物・さしもの・3) banner mounting at the back of samurai armor

Variations:

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 ebisu
    えびす
(1) (archaism) (See 蝦夷・1) 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) (derogatory term) foreigner; barbarian

奴さん

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 yakkosan
    やっこさん
(pronoun) (1) (derogatory or familiar) he; she; him; her; (2) samurai's attendant (in a var. of origami); (3) type of popular song accompanied by dance from the Edo period

小走り

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 kobashiri
    こばしり
(noun/participle) (1) trot; half run; jog; (2) girl in charge of menial tasks in a samurai family

干し飯

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 hoshiii / hoshii
    ほしいい
dried boiled rice used mainly as provisions of samurai troops and travelers (travellers)

弓取り

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 yumitori
    ゆみとり
(1) (archaism) archer (esp. a samurai); (2) (archaism) (skilled) archer; bowman; (3) (archaism) dominion of a whole province by a military family; (4) (abbreviation) (See 弓取り式) bow-twirling ceremony at the end of a day of sumo wrestling

徒士衆

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 kachishuu / kachishu
    かちしゅう
(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)

御用人

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 goyounin / goyonin
    ごようにん
(honorific or respectful language) (See 用人・1) manager; steward; person next in rank to the chief retainer and in charge of general management and accounting in a samurai family (Edo period)

扇子腹

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 sensubara
    せんすばら
(hist) (See 切腹・1) fan seppuku; death penalty for samurai in which the condemned performs a symbolic disembowelment with a fan before being decapitated

手裡劍


手里剑

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shǒu lǐ jiàn
    shou3 li3 jian4
shou li chien
straight or circular throwing-knife used by ninja and samurai (loanword from Japanese 手裏剣 shuriken)

旗本奴

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 hatamotoyakko
    はたもとやっこ
(hist) hatamoto-yakko; samurai bandits, organized into gangs, who wore flamboyant clothing and engaged in violent and antisocial behaviour (Edo period)

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