retainer; subject; liege; vassal

absolute

loyalty

to swear, to pledge, to make an oath, to vow

an oath, pledge / (Shinto, Buddhism) vow that the Buddha pledged to save sentient beings

conjunctive form of 誓う (chikau) [godan]

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

a king, especially one who is not East Asian or was East Asian in pre-imperial times; in China and Vietnam, generally a king before Qin Shi Huangdi who invented the title 皇帝 (kōtei, “huangdi; emperor”); in Korea, one of the many kings before the Korean Empire which was modeled after Japan's; in Japan, one of the rulers before Emperor Jinmu