(historical) under the 律令 (Ritsuryō) system, soldiers who were dispatched to key locations in northern Kyushu, Iki province, and Tsushima island to prevent invasion of the Japanese mainland

(historical) a soldier who guarded the frontiers in Tang-dynasty China

to work at a job, to labour / to work properly, to operate, to function; to carry out one's function, to be effective, to come into play / to perpetrate or commit a crime

Alternative spelling of 只働き

Alternative spelling of 只働き

he / distal demonstrative, something far off removed from both speaker and listener: that / boyfriend

distal demonstrative, something far off removed from both speaker and listener: that, yon / particularly, male personal third person pronoun: he / by extension from he: boyfriend

he; boyfriend

(archaic) antique, old-fashioned / (colloquial) ancient

ancient times, antiquity, remote ages