noun:

• Shuhari; three stages of learning mastery: the fundamentals, breaking with tradition, parting with traditional wisdom - Martial Arts term

noun:

• conservatism

noun:

• guardian spirit

ichidan verb / transitive:

• to support; to back up; to rally round
• to revive (e.g. a company); to boost (e.g. morale)
• to bring up; to raise

adjectival noun:

• defensive

noun / ~する noun:

• building up and maintaining

noun:

• guards

noun / ~する noun:

• lack of innovation; stupidity

noun:

• nurse; nanny; guardian

noun:

• making replacements for defensive purposes in the late inning of a game - Baseball term

noun:

• guards

noun:

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

noun:

• duty of confidentiality (concerning private matters learned through one's business) - four character idiom

noun:

• garrison

noun:

• war of defense; war of defence; defensive fight; defensive warfare

noun:

• small pouch containing a paper charm or talisman ➜ 守り札

godan ~る verb / transitive:

• to hold on to something (secret, lead in a race, etc.)

noun:

• acting shugo (Kamakura or Muromachi period military governor) ➜ 守護

noun:

• director (of the provincial governors under the ritsuryo system) ➜ 国司・長官【かみ】