lady attendant;  lady's maid;  waiting maid
 warrior (esp. of military retainers of daimyos in the Edo period);  samurai; (arch.)  man in attendance (on a person of high standing); (arch.)  retainer
 attendant;  attendance upon another
 attendant;  valet;  altar boy;  acolyte
 samurai general (esp. during the Sengoku period)
 maid of honor;  maid of honour
 provincial samurai in the middle ages, who engaged in agriculture in peacetime
 Board of Retainers (Kamakura and Muromachi-period government office);  samurai guard house (Heian and Kamakura periods)
 flanking image (e.g. in a Buddha triad)
 maid of honor;  maid of honour;  lady-in-waiting
 respectfully;  private secretary
 tutor to a daimyo, etc.;  tutor to the emperor or crown prince (Meiji period)
 rustic samurai;  boorish samurai
 cowardly or depraved samurai
 guard house in a samurai style house (Kamakura period)
 serving;  attending on someone
 humble samurai who served as a body guard on foot
 cowardly, good-for-nothing samurai from the countryside
 flanking image (e.g. in a Buddha triad)
 flanking image (e.g. in a Buddha triad)
 retainer;  attending on the nobility
 Polyergus samurai (species of amazon ant)
 mnemonic for remembering the months with fewer than 31 days (ni, shi, mu, ku, etc.)
 to wait upon;  to serve;  to be;  to humbly do ...
 low-ranking samurai;  samurai of the lowest rank