noun:

• shrine receiving offerings from the provincial government (pre-Meiji) or the national treasury (post-Meiji) - obsolete term

noun:

• native state (of pre-independence India); princely state

noun:

• regional administrator (pre-Taika hereditary title)

noun:

• anti-Japanese resistance movement (in pre-WWII China); anti-Japanese campaign

noun:

• territory (pre-Taika: under the Yamato court; Heian: under a provincial governor, etc.)
• countryside - archaism

noun:

• Socialist Masses Party (pre-war political party; established in 1932, eliminated by the government in 1940)

adverbial noun / temporal noun:

• this morning (at dawn)

noun:

• school building for housing an imperial photograph and a copy of the Rescript on Education (pre-war Japan)

noun:

• violet (any flower of genus Viola, esp. the Fuji dawn, Viola mandshurica)

noun:

• White Australia Policy (pre-1965 Australian immigration policy)

noun:

• the three grand national holidays (Prayer to the Four Quarters, Empire Day, the Emperor's Birthday; pre-1927) ➜ 紀元節・四方拝・天長節

noun:

• senior class (kindergarten, pre-school, etc.)

noun:

• Imperial Guard Division (pre-1945)

temporal noun / adverbial noun:

• early morning (before the break of dawn) - archaism

noun:

• early morning (from dawn to breakfast) - archaism

noun:

• (pre-cut) adhesive plaster; bandaid - brandname, from 'cut' and 'ban(dage)'

noun:

• Home Ministry; Department of the Interior (US, etc.); Home Office (UK); Ministry of Home Affairs (Japan, pre-1947)

prefix noun:

• the last (i.e. immediately preceding) (e.g. "the last mayor"); previous; one-time; former
• pre- (e.g. "premodern") - before the name of an era

~の noun / noun:

• before; earlier ➜ 前【まえ】

noun / ~する noun:

• acrobatic barrel-rolling (performed using the feet while lying on the back)
• handing something around (within a fixed group of people in a pre-arranged order)
• handing off a problem to someone else (in order to evade responsibility)

ichidan verb / transitive:

• to open (a door, etc.); to unwrap (e.g. parcel, package); to unlock ［開ける］
• to open (for business, etc.) ［開ける］
• to empty; to remove; to make space; to make room - esp. 空ける
• to move out; to clear out - esp. 空ける
• to be away from (e.g. one's house); to leave (temporarily) - esp. 空ける

ichidan verb / intransitive verb:

• to dawn; to grow light - esp. 明ける
• to end (of a period, season) - esp. 明ける
• to begin (of the New Year) - esp. 明ける
• to leave (one's schedule) open; to make time (for) - esp. 明ける
• to make (a hole); to open up (a hole)

noun:

• antique; historical object
• pre-Meiji period drama; period piece

noun:

• old translation
• pre-Xuanzang Chinese translation (esp. 5th-mid 7th century) - usu. くやく - Buddhism term

noun:

• eldest child; oldest child; first-born child
• child who carries on the family name
• pre-ritsuryo official established in key provinces, responsible for administration of his home and surrounding provinces - archaism ➜ 律令制・総領【すべおさ】
• head of a warrior clan (Kamakura period) - archaism

noun / ~する noun:

• notification

noun:

• pre-1886 administrative order

noun:

• Buddhist teachings; Buddhist scriptures - Buddhism term
• Dharmakara; Amitabha Buddha in a pre-enlightenment incarnation - Buddhism term