代代だいだい (daidai)

generation after generation

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代代 (だいだい, daidai) is a bonus vocabulary word meaning “generation after generation”.

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Example sentences 7

郷里きょうり先祖せんぞ 代代だいだいはかがある

In my hometown there are graves going back many generations.

江戸時代の生野奉行は11代、代官に改組後は28人が勤めた。

11 bugyo served at the Ikuno bugyosho and after the reorganization took place, 28 daikan served at the Ikuno daikansho during the Edo period.

乾氏(板垣氏)江戸時代、代々土佐藩士で、家格は馬廻役(上士)。

The Inui clan (the Itagaki clan) were hereditary feudal retainers of the Tosa Domain during the Edo period, with the social standing of Umamawariyaku (body guard), a Joshi status (superior warrior).

諸藩でも、家臣の知行地の蔵米化が進み、郡代、代官がまとめて管理するようになった。

Resembling the bakufu, in many han (domains), as their vassals' appanage generally changed from chigyo (grant) to kuramai (payment by rice from warehouses), gundai (intendant of a region or administrator of a town) and daikan who were appointed by their han came to administer vassals' territories together.