Vocabulary

Mahito (highest of the eight hereditary titles)

Ason (second highest of the eight hereditary titles)

Lord (title of respect for nobility, etc.)

Imiki (fourth highest of the eight hereditary titles)

Michinoshi (fifth highest of the eight hereditary titles)

regional official responsible for rice storage (under the Yamato court)

Shoku Nihongi (second of the six classical Japanese history texts)

Nihon Kōki (third of the six classical Japanese history texts)

Shoku Nihon Kōki (fourth of the six classical Japanese history texts)

Nihon Montoku Tennō Jitsuroku (fifth of the six classical Japanese history texts)

Montoku Jitsuroku (fifth of the six classical Japanese history texts)

Nihon Sandai Jitsuroku (sixth of the six classical Japanese history texts)

Sandai Jitsuroku (sixth of the six classical Japanese history texts)

many books; many writings

publication of two or more different books together as one

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

sequel; second series

government office; public office

fetters; bonds

news of someone's death

round leaved primula (Primula obconica); primrose; poison primrose

severe punishment; death penalty

five punishments (of ancient China: tattooing, cutting off the nose, cutting off a leg, castration or confinement, death)

imprisonment (for 1-3 years; third most severe of the five ritsuryō punishments)

exile (second most severe of the five ritsuryō punishments)

beheading; decapitation

public caning (60-100 strokes; second least severe of the five ritsuryō punishments)

caning (10-50 strokes; least severe of the five ritsuryō punishments)

scourge; whip; switch

slender shoot; scion; switch

five punishments (of the ritsuryō system: light caning, severe caning, imprisonment, exile, death)

woodland sumac (Rhus sylvestris)

homonym

homonym that has a native Japanese reading

homograph

(words with) different kanji but the same Japanese reading (and usu. a similar meaning)

pre-opening (party or showing)

aster (Aster tataricus); Tartarian aster; Michaelmas daisy

different character; other character

homophony (having the same pronunciation as another word but a different written form); heterography