jidai

Updated: May 26, 2025

Those who use it insist that the people of Japan are losing their former happiness under the stress of new conditions. Now there can be no doubt that during the "Kyu-han jidai," the times before the coming in of Western waves of life, the farmers were a simple, unsophisticated people; living from month to month with little thought or anxiety. They may be said to have been happy.

Sidney Lewis Gulick - Evolution Of The Japanese, Social And Psychic

She looked about fifteen, but must have been nineteen, because, in Japan no one is allowed to smoke until that age has been attained, and no native would think of breaking a rule. We arrived in time for the Jidai Festival, which is held only once a year.

Geneve L. A. Shaffer - The Log of the Empire State

The interval between the close of the fifteenth century and the end of the sixteenth is set apart by Japanese annalists as the most disturbed period of the country's history and is distinguished by the term Sengoku Jidai, or the Epoch of Wars.

F. (Frank) Brinkley - A History of the Japanese People : From the Earliest Times to the End of the Meiji Era