天保の飢饉

てんぽうのききん

Tenpō famine (1833-1836); Tempo famine

飢饉

ききん

famine, drought, shortage, crop failure

天保の大飢饉

てんぽうのだいききん

Great Tempo Famine

大飢饉

だいききん

severe famine

水飢饉

みずききん

drought, water shortage

享保の飢饉

きょうほうのききん

Kyōhō famine (1732)

豊作飢饉

ほうさくききん

impoverishment of farmers because of a bumper harvest, decline in farmers' income caused by the sharply lower farm prices as a result of bumper harvests

天明

てんめい

dawn, daybreak

天明調

てんめいちょう

style of haikai or haiku from the Tenmei era (based on a return to the style of Basho)

天文薄明

てんもんはくめい

astronomical twilight

天地神明

てんちしんめい

the gods of heaven and earth

明治天皇

めいじてんのう

Emperor Meiji

明日天気

あしたてんき

children's game of throwing a shoe up in the air and seeing how it falls to predict whether it will rain or not the following day

飢民

きみん

starving people

飢渇

きかつ

hunger and thirst, starvation

飢餓

きが

starvation, famine, hunger

飢え

うえ

hunger, starvation

飢寒

きかん

hunger and cold

飢凍

きとう

starving and freezing to death