Sens du Mot 譜代大名

hereditary succession

hereditary daimyo whose ancestors supported Tokugawa Ieyasu prior to the battle of Sekigahara

provincial military governor turned daimyo (Muromachi period) (distinct from the shugo bureaucrats of the Kamakura period)

cursive kanji form used as a syllabary (Heian period)

daimyo (Japanese feudal lord)

global name

duty (to one's country, sovereign, etc.)

acting president

Meio University

proportional representation system in which votes are cast for a publicly available list of party members or for individual members of that list

pronoun

old-fashioned