a woman attendant in the imperial court; lady-in-waiting

a married woman

(Shinto): a bone woman: a female apparition who appears as a skeletal woman

(Catholicism) A nun

ostracism; a type of extra-judicial social exclusion practiced in Japan where a villager disturbing the peace of a village is shunned by the rest of them

one for all, all for one

A female practitioner of martial arts; a martial artist.

A type of straw hat worn by upper class women during the Heian period in Japan

(less common) alternative reading for Ame no Uzume

(Shinto, Japanese mythology) a goddess who performed a merry ritual dance to entertain the gods of heaven, to lure 天照 (Amaterasu) out of the cave 天岩戸 (Ama no Iwato)