Meanings

pre-school education

Echizen (former province located in parts of present-day Fukui and Gifu prefectures)

Hirosaki (city in Aomori)

Maebashi (city in Gunma)

Uzen (former province located in parts of present-day Yamagata Prefecture)

Rikuzen (former province located in parts of present-day Miyagi and Iwate prefectures)

Bizen (former province located in the southeast of present-day Okayama Prefecture)

Hizen (former province located in present-day Saga and Nagasaki prefectures, excluding Tsushima and Oki Islands)

foregrounding

each paying for his own account

prehistoric

traditional Japanese wedding ceremony (usu. at a shrine or temple)

preceding emperor

gift inter vivos

in name only

anterograde amnesia

anterior pituitary

abdication of an emperor (before demise)

two years before

surname