noun:

• Sho clan; royal family of the Ryukyu Kingdom

noun:

• currency issued by a feudal clan

noun:

• powerful local clan

noun:

• distinctive character used in the names of all people belonging to a single clan or lineage

noun:

• wild ginger trefoil coat of arms of the Tokugawa clan

noun:

• Ninja clan master; highest-ranking ninja

noun:

• each clan

noun:

• inside a clan; same clan

noun:

• ancient clan record (incl. their origins, their achievements, etc.)

noun:

• the same clan

noun:

• ancient clan

noun:

• Yamato no Aya clan

noun:

• clanship; clannism; clan favoritism; clan favouritism

noun:

• person of blood lineage; clan member

noun:

• one's family; one's clan

noun:

• one's family and followers; one's whole clan - four character idiom

noun:

• the five regent houses; five families of the Fujiwara clan (Konoe, Kujo, Nijo, Ichijo, and Takatsukasa) entrusted as imperial regents and advisors starting in the Kamakura period ➜ 摂関

noun:

• large feudal domain; large fiefdom; powerful clan

noun:

• powerful family (clan)

noun:

• the four great families of the age (esp. the Minamoto clan, the Taira clan, the Fujiwara clan and the Tachibana clan)
• varna (each of the four Hindu castes) ➜ ヴァルナ

noun:

• using an enemy's liver for medicinal purposes (Satsuma clan) - obscure term - archaism

noun:

• Heian-period boarding school (for children of a specific noble clan) established near the former central university of Kyoto ➜ 大学寮・七大私学

noun:

• barony of the first degree
• influential feudal clan

noun:

• eldest son - archaism ➜ 長男
• older brother; older sister - archaism
• older person - archaism
• head of a clan; head of a region - archaism ➜ 氏上
• skilled craftsman - archaism

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