A History of Japan: From Stone Age to Superpower (122 page)

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Authors: Kenneth Henshall

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senry
  
humorous form of 17-syllable poetry popular in Tokugawa period
seppuku
  
harakiri
shamisen
  
three-stringed lute-like instrument
shi-n
-k
-sh
  
‘warrior-peasant-artisan-merchant’, hierarchical social structure in Tokugawa period
shinpan daimy
  
related to Tokugawa house
shinp
  
see
kamikaze
shizoku
  
former samurai, from early Meiji period
sh
en
  
medieval estate
sh
gun
  
military ruler
sh
shika
  
the trend of declining childbirth
shugo
  
medieval protector or constable (of land)
shunga
  
sexually explicit prints of Tokugawa period
sonn
j
i
  
‘revere the emperor, expel the barbarians’, slogan popular in late Tokugawa period
soto
  
outside
tameshigiri
  
‘trial cut’ of samurai sword on corpses or sometimes live criminals
tatemae
  
front or pretext, often ‘lip service’
tenn
sei
  
emperor-system, used especially of emperor-centred nationalistic indoctrination of mid Meiji to World War Two
terakoya
  
schools for commoners in Tokugawa period, originally in temples
t
j
seikatsusha
  
the homeless who sleep on the street

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