noun:

• one term; one period
• first term; first period

noun:

• days of one's menstrual period - from blue meaning melancholy or depressed - From English "blue day"

noun:

• days of one's menstrual period

noun:

• period of time in which to recharge one's batteries

noun:

• period when one's voice changes; (age of) puberty

noun:

• days of one's menstrual period ➜ 生理日

noun:

• one group comprising the lowest rank of Japan's Edo-period caste system (people whose work usually involved handling human bodies or animal carcasses) - vulgar ➜ 被差別部落民

noun:

• money to see one over the New Year period

noun:

• period (of life) when one is enjoying more romantic attention than usual - colloquialism

expression:

• a single mistake can ruin all one's hard work; one blunder can render useless a long period of effort; one fart in a hundred days' sermons [literal] - proverb

noun:

• tufted toothpick; Edo-period toothbrush resembling a large toothpick burred at one end into a tuft

noun:

• one's dark days; the period during which one suffered misfortune and obscurity - four character idiom

noun:

• School of Diplomacy; one of the Schools of Thought during the Warring States period in China ➜ 諸子百家【しょしひゃっか】

noun:

• highway (esp. one existing from the Edo period); main road
• highway (e.g. to success); path (to becoming ...) ➜ 出世街道【しゅっせかいどう】

noun:

• archaic period of time (usu. a period of approx. two hours corresponding to one of the signs of the Chinese zodiac)
• carving; engraving; cutting; mincing ［刻］
• victory ［剋］
• strictness; cruelty

noun:

• (period of) one year

noun:

• detective story (esp. one from the Edo period featuring thief-takers) ➜ 目明かし・岡っ引き
• detective's memoirs; thief taker's memoirs

noun:

• (one of) the eight earliest and most prestigious high schools (Meiji period) - From English "number school"

noun:

• young man (in the Edo period, esp. one with forelocks who has not yet had his coming-of-age ceremony)
• young male prostitute; young kabuki actor (who may also act as a homosexual prostitute)
• younger partner in a homosexual relationship ➜ 念者【ねんしゃ】

noun:

• stone for cutting one's pubic hair (in public baths)(Edo period) - archaism

noun:

• residence for low class samurai enrolled in one of the police forces (Edo period) ➜ 与力・同心

noun:

• (Edo-period) roadside teahouse where one would go to relax (in comparison with a restaurant style teahouse and teahouse offering sexual services); tea stall ➜ 色茶屋・料理茶屋

noun:

• 16,800,000-year period over which a human lifespan increases from ten years to 84,000 years (by one year per century) and then decreases back to ten (by one year per century) - Buddhism term

noun:

• bardo; state (or period) of intermediate existence between one's death and rebirth (in Japan, 49 days) - Buddhism term ➜ 中陰

noun:

• bardo; state (or period) of intermediate existence between one's death and rebirth (in Japan, 49 days) - Buddhism term ➜ 中陰・四有