| bakuchi-uchi | professional gambler(s) |
| Bakufu | Shogunate |
| beiju | eighty-eight years old |
| Bon | the Buddhist All Souls’ Day |
| boryokudan | gangster organization(s) |
| buke | warrior(s) |
| bun, or bungen | restrictions attributed to one's status |
| bunke | branch family(-ies) |
| bunten | branch shop(s) |
| buraku | hamlet; discriminated hamlet |
| burakumin | people of a buraku |
| bushi | buke (warrior(s)) |
| bushido | the code of warriors |
| chanoyu | tea ceremony |
| chonai | town block |
| chonai-kai | town block association(s) |
| chotei | mediation |
| chugen | mid-year present(s) |
| chu-ko | fidelity to Tenno and piety toward parents |
| daimyo | local lord(s) |
| deshi | disciple(s) |
| dowa | de-discrimination |
| dozoku | common kin |
| eiho | art of swimming |
| eikosaku, or eikosaku-ken | perpetual land lease |
| enkiri-dera | a Buddhist temple for divorce |
| fusuma | sliding door(s) |
| gaichi | external territories |
| gengo | the name of an era under the reign of a Tenno |
| giri | the manner of behaviour required of one person to others in consequence of his social status |
| haiku | seventeen-syllable poem(s) |
| hanko | a seal and its impressions |
| ho | law |
| hogaku | Japanese music; jurisprudence |
| honke | main family(-ies) |
| honten | main shop(s) |
| honzan | the main temple |
| ie | family; household |
| iemoto | the main family of a school of traditional arts |
| ie-seido | Japanese family system under the Meiji constitution |
| ikai kunto | imperial court ranks and honours |
| ikebana | flower arrangement |
| inkan | hanko |
| iriai, or iriai-ken | right to a common land |
| irori | fireplace(s) |
| jichin-sai | ceremony to purify a building site |
| jingi | covenants |
| jinja | Shinto shrine(s) |
| jitsuin | the legitimate seal of a person |
| joto-tampo | mortgage |
| jori | reasonableness |
| kado | ikebana |
| kaho, or kaken | the constitution of a family |
| kami | Shinto god(s) |
| Kan-i Juni-kai | Twelve Grades of Officials |
| kanreki | sixtieth birthday |
| kao | face |
| kazoe-doshi | age in calendar years |
| kazoku-seido | family system |
| Kempo | Constitution |
| Kempo Jushichi-jo | Seventeen-Article Constitution |
| kendo | traditional fencing |
| Kigen | Year after the Accession of the First Tenno Jimmu |
| kimei natsuin | showing one's name and impressing one's seal |
| kobun | fictitious children |
| Kogo | Empress |
| kokka | state |
| kokutai | national polity of the Tenno regime |
| kuge | court noble(s) |
| kujira-jaku | whale-shaku, a special measure for length |
| kumi | a grouping, community |
| kyaku | supplementary law(s) |
| kyodaibun | fictitious brothers |
| kyoha | Shinto sect(s) |
| Kyoiku Chokugo | The Rescript of Education |
| kyudo | Japanese archery |
| kyureki | old, lunar calendar |
| matsuji | subordinate temple(s) |
| matsuri | rituals in, and festivals for, a jinja |
| miai | an interview with a view to marriage |
| mibun | status |
| mibun kaiso-sei | status hierarchy |
| mimoto hosho | vouching for a person as a whole |
| miyaza | ujiko group(s) with a specific relationship to the ujigami |
| mizu ni nagasu | to wash away |
| muko-yoshi | groom foster-son(s) |
| murahachibu | expulsion from a community |
| naichi | homeland |
| naien | de facto marriage |
| nakodo | go-between(s) |
| nawabari | territory of influence |
| nengo | gengo |
| nenju gyoji | annual events |
| ne-teito | fixed collateral |
| nihon buyo | Japanese dancing |
| noren | goodwill |
| nyufu | incoming husband |
| on | unlimited incurred obligation |
| oseibo | year-end present(s) |
| oyabun | fictitious parent(s) |
| rakugo | comic story(-ies) |
| ritsu | sanctioning law(s) |
| ronin | lordless warrior(s) |
| roppo | six codes; the Japanese codes and laws |
| rotensho | stall keeper(s) |
| ryo | admonitory law(s) |
| sado | cha-no-yu |
| saisei-icchi | the unity of Shinto and state |
| seibo | ose ibo |
| seido | system |
| shakkan-ho | the traditional measurement |
| shichi | pledge |
| shiki | particularized rule(s) |
| shikitari | convention |
| shinzoku-kai | a council of the relatives |
| shiten | bunten |
| Shogun | the president of the hereditary Shogunate |
| shoji | paper screen(s) |
| shomin | commoners |
| shuha | Buddhist sect(s) |
| so-honke | the main family of the related honkes |
| sumo | Japanese wrestling |
| tandoku sozoku | sole heir inheritance |
| tatami | room mat(s) |
| teito | hypothec |
| Tenno | Japanese Emperor |
| tera | Buddhist temple(s) |
| ujigami | Shinto god(s) of a hamlet |
| ujiko | children of an ujigami |
| wa | harmony |
| waka | thirty-one-syllable poem(s) |
| wakai | conciliation |
| wakamono-gumi | youth association(s) |
| yakuza | delinquent(s) |
| yuino | betrothal gifts |
| zaibatsu | finance clique(s) |