Nikkei Ancestry

(1, 'ane - 姉', 'older sister'),
(2, 'aza - 字', '(sometimes ooaza - 大字 ) unorganized district in a shi or mura'),
(3, 'banchi - 番地 ', 'house number'),
(4, 'bo - 亡', 'deceased; the late'),
(5, 'chichi - 父 ', 'father'),
(6, 'choujo - 長女', 'eldest daughter'),
(7, 'choume - 丁目', 'smaller division of a chou in some neighborhoods'),
(8, 'chounan - 長男', 'eldest son', 2, 'oKawa', '', 1188883412, 0, 0),
(9, 'chou - 町', '(also read machi) district within a shi or ku; town within a gun'),
(10, 'dan - 男', '(also read nan) male; man; son'),
(11, 'fu - 府', 'urban prefecture (kyoto-fu, Osaka-fu, 京都府 , 大坂府) Similar to ken'),
(12, 'gatsu - 月', '(also read getsu or tsuki) month'),
(13, 'genseki - 原籍', 'another term for honseki'),
(14, 'gokyodai - 御兄弟', 'siblings'),
(15, 'gun - 郡', 'county, divided into cho and mura'),
(16, 'haha - 母', 'mother', 2, 'oKawa', '', 1188883609, 0, 0),
(17, 'hi - 日', '(also read nichi) day; date'),
(18, 'hibaba - 曾祖母', 'great-grandmother'),
(19, 'hijiji - 曾祖父', 'great-grandfather'),
(20, 'himago - 曾孫', '(also read souson) great-grandchild'),
(21, 'honseki - 本籍', 'registered locality (address of household being registered)'),
(22, 'houmyou - 法名', 'Buddhist name given to living converts; similar to kaimyo'),
(23, 'imouto - 妹', 'younger sister'),
(24, 'jiisan - 爺さん', 'grandfather, male senior-citizen'),
(25, 'jijo - 次女', 'second daughter'),
(26, 'jinan - 次男', 'second son'),
(27, 'jinshin koseki - 壬申 戸籍', 'registry begun in the year Jinshin (Meiji 5: 1872). Not available for private genealogical work'),
(28, 'joseki - 除籍', 'expired register in which all persons originally entered have been removed because of death, change of residence, etc. A joseki file is ordinarily available for 80 years after its expiration'),
(29, 'jo - 女', 'female; woman; daughter'),
(30, 'kaden - 家伝', 'family history (tradition)'),
(31, 'kaimyou - 戒名', 'posthumous Buddhist name, recorded in kakocho'),
(32, 'kakochou - 過去帳', 'Buddhist death register'),
(33, 'keizu - 系図', 'family tree;pedigree; genealogy'),
(34, 'keizugaku - 系図学', 'genealogy (the study)'),
(35, 'ken - 県 (or 縣 )', 'prefecture, divided into shi and gun'),
(36, 'koseki - 戸籍', 'household register, begun 1872; available from 1886. Includes all people in a household under one'),
(37, 'koshu - 戸主', 'head of a household'),
(38, 'kousofu - 高祖父', 'great-great-grandfather'),
(39, 'kousobo - 高祖母', 'great-great-grandmother'),
(40, 'ku - 区 (or 區 )', 'ward in some large cities (Sapporo, Tokyo, Yokohama, Kawasaki, Nagoya, Kyoto, Osaka, Kobe, Hiroshima, Kita Kyushu, Fukuoka); divided into cho'),
(41, 'kuni - 国 (or 國 )', 'province (no longer in official use). Now used to mean "Nation"'),
(42, 'mago - 孫', '(also read son) grandchild'),
(43, 'mura - 村', '(also read son) village within a gun'),
(44, 'nen - 年', '(also read toshi) year'),
(45, 'ninchi - 認知', 'acknowledgment or recognition of a child as his own'),
(46, 'ninbetsuchou - 人別帳', 'individual examination register (pre-1873). The shumon aratamecho and ninbetsucho were special surveillance censuses whose object was to detect and apprehend hidden Christians who were a threat to Japanese values. They were superseded by the koseki.'),
(47, 'otouto - 弟', '(or ototo)younger brother'),
(48, 'otto - 夫', 'husband'),
(49, 'senzo - 先祖', 'ancestor'),
(50, 'shimei - 氏名', 'family name; name of household head'),
(51, 'shi - 市', 'city, divided into cho and aza'),
(52, 'shiseiji - 私生児', 'child born out of wedlock'),
(53, 'shussei - 出生', 'birth'),
(54, 'shizoku - 支族', 'tribe, branch family'),
(55, 'shison - 子孫', 'descendants, offspring'),
(56, 'shuumon aratamechou - 宗門 - 朱門改め帳', 'examination of religion register (pre-1873)'),
(57, 'sofu - 祖父 ', 'grandfather'),
(58, 'sobo - 祖母', 'grandmother'),
(59, 'shouhon - 抄本', 'summary; abstract'),
(60, 'touhon - 謄本', 'certified copy'),
(61, 'to - 都', 'metropolitan prefecture (tokyo-to - 東京都 ). Similar to ken'),
(62, 'tsuma - 妻', 'wife'),
(63, 'yo - 養', '(or - 養子 youshi)adopted child, son-in-law. In Japan, a man without sons may adopt his eldest daughter's husband as his own son, and the young man will take his wife's surname'),
(64, 'yuisho - 由緒', 'history; pedigree; lineage'),
(65, 'zenkoshu - 前戸主', 'previous head of household'),