folk song (of the ordinary people)

Ming Dynasty

Short for 明朝体 (minchōtai): the Ming typographic style of East Asian scripts (Han, hangul, kana), equivalent to the Western serif style

sweetness

real sword (as opposed to a wooden practice sword)

Alternative form of メヌエット

water clock

people, mass, crowd

private, non-governmental

A kind of familiar spirit, summoned-up in service as a servant to the will of a practitioner of the onmyōdō (陰陽道) religion, very much like a western familiar.