old documents / (in palaeography) historical documents written to convey a specific intention between a sender and receiver; generally inclusive of written material through the mid-19th century

paleography

Archaic spelling of だいくんい.

大勲位: the highest order of merit in the Japanese honors system: the 大勲位菊花章 (Dai-kun'i Kikka Shō, “Supreme Order of the Chrysanthemum”)

to note; to write down

an order of merit higher than first class in the Japanese honors system

(onomatopoeia) Representing a sniffing sound.

(archaic) The hiragana syllable ゐ (wi). Its equivalent in katakana is ヰ (wi). It is the forty-fifth syllable in the gojūon order; its position is わ行い段 (wa-gyō i-dan, “row wa, section i”).

a word, a term / language, speech

unable to put into words