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noun
granduncle
Other readings:
大伯父【おおおじ】
従祖父【おおおじ】

noun
grandfather of the emperor(archaism, obscure)

きん
okosozukin
noun
kerchief worn by women in former times in Japan in cold weather, covering the whole head (except eyes)
Other readings:
お高祖頭巾【おこそずきん】

noun
grandpa, gramps(usually kana, honorific language, child term, familiar language)
Other readings:
おじいちゃま《お祖父ちゃま》

noun
grandpa, granddad(colloquialism, usually kana)

noun
the founder of our sect (esp. in reference to Nichiren)(honorific language)

noun
1.
grandmother(usually kana, honorific language)(usu. お祖母様)
2.
old woman, female senior citizen(usually kana, honorific language)(usu. お婆様)
Other readings:
おばあさま《お婆様》
おばあさま《お祖母さま》
おばあさま《お婆さま》
おばあさま《御祖母様》
おばあさま《御婆様》
おばあさま《御祖母さま》
おばあさま《御婆さま》

noun
grandma, granny(usually kana, honorific language, child term, familiar language)
Other readings:
おばあちゃま《お婆ちゃま》
おばちゃま《お祖母ちゃま》
おばちゃま《お婆ちゃま》

noun
1.
child who loves their grandmother
2.
child who is doted on by their grandmother
Other readings:
お祖母ちゃん子【おばあちゃんこ】

noun
(divine, historical or legendary) founder of an empire

noun
1.
grandfather (may be used after name as honorific)(familiar language, usually kana)(usu. 祖父ちゃん)
See also:祖父さん
2.
male senior-citizen (may be used after name as honorific)(usually kana)(usu. 爺ちゃん)
See also:爺さん
Other readings:
じいちゃん《祖父ちゃん》

noun
1.
old people(usually kana)
See also:,  
2.
grandparents(only relevant for 祖父祖母)
Other readings:
じじばば《爺婆》
ジジババ

noun
the first generation of a family, school (of thought) or religious sect(obscure)

noun
1.
true ancestor
2.
var. of vampire (in fiction)

noun, no-adjective
ancestral, hereditary, generation after generation, passing from father to son(yojijukugo)
Other readings:
先祖代々【せんぞだいだい】

noun, no-adjective
what has been (orally) handed down from generation to generation, legend, folk tale(yojijukugo)

noun
great-grandfather, great-granddad, great-grandad
Other readings:
曾祖父【ひいじじ】
曾祖父【ひじじ】
曾祖父【ひおおじ】
曽祖父【そうそふ】
曽祖父【ひいじじ】
曽祖父【ひじじ】
曽祖父【ひおおじ】

noun
great-grandmother, great-grandma
Other readings:
曾祖母【ひいばば】
曾祖母【ひばば】
曾祖母【ひおおば】
曽祖母【そうそぼ】
曽祖母【ひいばば】
曽祖母【ひばば】
曽祖母【ひおおば】

noun
protolanguage, parent language(linguistics)

noun
1.
deceased grandfather, deceased father and grandfather(obscure)
2.
distant ancestor, forefather(obscure)

noun
Patriotic War (Russian name for the war with Napoleon in 1812)

noun
the coming of Bodhidharma from western India to China(Buddhist term)

noun
Zen Buddhism based on the teachings of Bodhidharma
See also:如来禅

noun, auxillary suru verb
exposition (propagation) of one's master's teachings or doctrines

noun
ancestor worshipped as a deity
Other readings:
祖神【そじん】

せんれいまつ
sosennoreiwomatsuru
expression, Godan-ru verb
to perform religious services for the departed souls of one's ancestors

noun
mausoleum containing the remains of one's ancestors

noun
1.
ancestral spirit, collective of ancestral spirits which have lost their individualities
2.
ancestor deified as a kami, spirit of a kami

noun
founder, progenitor, emperor
Other readings:
大祖【たいそ】

だいこくせんそう
daisokokusensou
noun
Great Patriotic War (Russian name for the war along the eastern front during World War II)

noun
ancestor who rejuvenated a dynasty or a family

でんはっ
denjinohasso
expression, noun
the eight doctrinal patriarchs who expounded the teachings (Nagarjuna, Nagabodhi, Vajrabodhi, Amoghavajra, Yi Xing, Huigo and Kukai) (in Shingon)(Buddhist term)

noun
traveler's guardian deity (traveller)
Other readings:
道祖神【どうそしん】
道祖神【さいのかみ】
道祖神【さえのかみ】
塞の神【さいのかみ】
塞の神【さえのかみ】
障の神【さいのかみ】
障の神【さえのかみ】

noun, no-adjective
eponym (word derived from the name of a place or person)

にちゆうどうろん
nichiyuudousoron
noun
hypothesis that Jews and Japanese are of common ancestry
Other readings:
日ユ同祖論【にちユどうそろん】

noun
1.
child who loves their grandmother
2.
child who is doted on by their grandmother
Other readings:
祖母ちゃん子【ばあちゃんこ】

noun
ancestor of a feudal lord(archaism)

noun, no-adjective
hereditary, patrimonial, handed down from generation to generation(yojijukugo)

ほうはっ
fuhounohasso
expression, noun
the Eight Lineage Patriarchs who received the transmission of the teachings, leading back to the Vairocana Buddha (Vairocana Buddha, Vajrasattva, Nagarjuna, Nagabodhi, Vajrabodhi, Amoghavajra, Huigo and Kukai) (in Shingon)(Buddhist term)

noun
Platform Sutra of the Sixth Patriarch, Platform Sutra(Buddhist term)