old documents / (in palaeography) historical documents written to convey a specific intention between a sender and receiver; generally inclusive of written material through the mid-19th century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, possibly obsolete, historical) in ancient Japan prior to the Taika Reform, a governor appointed by the emperor to carry out imperial policies in the provinces

to use / to employ / to make use of, to apply / to spend

a word, a term / language, speech

unable to put into words

unable to put into words

chewy as rice cake is

be springy, chewy like rice cake

御子: a god's or spirit's child; an emperor's child; an honorific term for someone else's child; Jesus / 御籠: a basket (poetic, euphemistic) / 皇子: imperial prince / 皇女: imperial princess