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1. dotaku, n. View full entry 1911
...With pl. concord. Prehistoric Japanese bronze objects shaped like bells and usu. decorated with geometric designs or stylized scenes from life....
2. heimin, n. View full entry 1875
...In Japanese society of the feudal period, the common people, including the peasantry, craftsmen, and traders, as contrasted with the court aristocracy and samurai (the warrior class)....
3. Jomon, n. View full entry 1946
...Used attrib. in Jomon pottery to denote a kind of very early hand-made Japanese pottery; hence applied to the early neolithic or pre-neolithic culture which is characterized by...
4. khan, n.1 View full entry c1400
...Hist. The specific title (usually with great, †grand, or the additions of Tartary, of Cathay) given to the successors of Chingīz Khan, who...
5. lei, n.2 View full entry 1929
...An urn-shaped Chinese bronze wine-vessel of the Shang to Middle Chou period (1500249 b.c.)....
6. ninja, n. and adj. View full entry 1964
...A person trained in the feudal Japanese art of ninjutsu or a modern version of it....
7. ninjutsu, n. View full entry 1950
...The Japanese art of stealth, camouflage, sabotage, and assassination, developed in feudal times for military espionage, but subsequently used in the training of warriors and others. Cf. ninja...
8. p'an, n.6 View full entry 1904
...A wide shallow bowl, made of bronze and usually having two handles, formerly used in China chiefly as a wash-bowl....
9. pi, n.2 View full entry 1871
...A flat jade disc with a small hole in the middle, used in ancient China for symbolic or ritual purposes. Freq. attrib., as pi disk. Cf. yuan...
10. samurai, n. View full entry 1727
...In Japan during the continuance of the feudal system, one of the class of military retainers of the daimios; sometimes in wider sense, a member of the military caste, whether a samurai...
11. spahi, n. View full entry 1562
...A horseman forming one of a body of cavalry which formerly constituted an important part of the Turkish army and was to some extent organized on a feudal basis. Now Hist....
12. tsung, n. View full entry 1904
...A ritual artefact (usu. made of a single piece of jade) consisting of a hollow cylinder with a central rectangular section, found esp. in graves of the Shang-Zhou period (16–11th cent. ...
13. yu, n. View full entry 1904
...An ancient Chinese wine vessel in the form of a small metal pail with a swing handle and a decorative cover, popular in the Shang and Early Zhou periods....
14. yuan, n.2 View full entry 1912
...A Chinese unit of currency introduced in 1914, equal to 10 jiao; a coin of this value....
15. yüeh, n.4 View full entry 1956
...A bronze battle-axe or halberd, esp. one of the Shang period....
16. zaim, n. View full entry 1807
...Formerly, in the feudal system of Turkey, a chief who supported a mounted militia bearing his name. Cf. timariotHist....
