• 大臣だいじん

  cabinet minister

• 忠臣ちゅうしん

  loyal retainer, loyal subject

• 総理大臣そうりだいじん

  prime minister (as the head of a cabinet government), premier

• 国務大臣こくむだいじん

  minister of state, cabinet minister (in Japan)

• 臣服しんぷく

  vassalage

• 臣従しんじゅう

  vassalage

• 臣事しんじ

  serving as a retainer

• 臣籍しんせき

  status of a subject

• 臣民しんみん

  subject, national, citizen

• 臣節しんせつ

  loyalty to one's master

• 臣下しんか

  retainer, subject, vassal, servant

• 賢臣けんしん

  wise and able retainer

• 寵臣ちょうしん

  favorite retainer, court favorite

• 奸臣かんしん

  disloyal retainer, treacherous subject

• 権臣けんしん

  influential vassal, powerful retainer, powerful courtier

• 文臣ぶんしん

  civil official (esp. dealing with literary matters)

• 封臣ほうしん

  vassal

• 朝臣ちょうしん

  courtier

• 群臣ぐんしん

  a crowd or large number of one's retainers or subjects

• 賊臣ぞくしん

  rebel, insurrectionist, traitor

• 家臣かしん

  vassal, retainer

• 老臣ろうしん

  old or key retainer

• 使臣ししん

  envoy

• 廷臣ていしん

  courtier

• 侍臣じしん

  courtier, attendant

• 陪臣ばいしん

  rear vassal, daimyo's retainer

• 旧臣きゅうしん

  old retainer

• 讒臣ざんしん

  slanderous retainer, libelous vassal

• 叛臣はんしん

  rebellious retainer

• 不臣ふしん

  disloyalty, unfaithfulness

• 外臣がいしん

  foreign retainer

• 諫臣かんしん

  retainer who dares to dissuade his lord

• 下臣かしん

  low-rank retainer

• 近臣きんしん

  vassal, attendant

• 謀臣ぼうしん

  strategist, tactician, schemer

• 人臣じんしん

  subjects, retainers

• 遺臣いしん

  surviving retainer

• 佞臣ねいしん

  crafty courtier, traitor

• 重臣じゅうしん

  chief vassal, senior statesman

• 武臣ぶしん

  military retainer

• 君臣くんしん

  ruler and ruled, master and servant

• 義臣ぎしん

  loyal retainer

• 嬖臣へいしん

  favorite retainer, court favorite

• 幕臣ばくしん

  shogunate retainer, shogunate vassal

• 乱臣らんしん

  traitor

• 功臣こうしん

  meritorious retainer

• 逆臣ぎゃくしん

  treacherous retainer

• 大臣柱だいじんばしら

  downstage left pillar (on a noh stage)

• 内大臣ないだいじん

  Lord Keeper of the Privy Seal (1885-1945)

• 右大臣うだいじん

  Minister of the Right (official in Nara and Heian periods)