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

BOOK: A History of Japan: From Stone Age to Superpower

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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