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- kaikin (海禁) - "maritime prohibitions" imposed by the Tokugawa shogunate from roughly 1635 to 1853. See also hai jin, sakoku.
- kampaku (関白) - an Imperial regent who served a number of functions, including chief advisor and secretary.
- Kannō disturbance (観応擾乱, Kannō Jōran), also called Kannō incident - a 1350 factional struggle with serious consequences pitting Ashikaga Tadayoshi, Takauji's brother, against the Kō brothers, Moronao and Moroyasu. See also the article Nanboku-chō period.
- kanrei (管領) - a high political post (shogun's deputy) of the Kamakura and Ashikaga shogunates. Originally called shitsuji.
- kenin - one of the lower castes under the ritsuryō system (see below). Also a direct vassal of the shogun during the Kamakura period (see "gokenin" above).
- Kentō-shi (遣唐使) - mission to Tang China (唐) for importing the technologies and culture of China to Japan. (see Imperial embassies to China)
- Kenzui-shi (遣隋使) - mission to Sui China (隋) for importing the technologies and culture of China to Japan. (see Imperial embassies to China)
- koku (石) - an amount of rice equal to the amount one man eats in a year; used in feudal times as a measurement of income and of wealth.
- Koga kubō (古河公方) - title arbitrarily assumed by Ashikaga Shigeuji after his escape from Kamakura to the city of Koga, Ibaraki.
kubō (公方) - shogun. Title later also assumed by the Kantō kanrei, who became known as Kantō kubō.
- kugyō (公卿) - a collective term for the very few most powerful men attached to the court of the Emperor of Japan in pre-Meiji eras.
- Kyōtoku Incident (享徳の乱, Kyōtoku no Ran) - a long series of skirmishes and conflicts fought for control of the Kantō region of Japan in the 15th century.
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