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• five residences for court ladies (in the inner Heian Palace) ➜ 後宮

noun:

• painting representing reeds around water with rocks, grass or birds made using characters (Heian period)
• characters written in a way inspired from that style

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• (Nara and Heian era) ministry of ceremonies

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• seven residential pavilions for court ladies (in the inner Heian Palace) ➜ 後宮

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• Dynastic period (the Nara period and esp. the Heian period, characterized by the rule of the emperor as opposed to shogunate) ➜ 武家時代

noun:

• court ladies' residence (in the inner Heian Palace) ➜ 五舎

noun:

• court ladies' residence (in the inner Heian Palace) ➜ 五舎

noun:

• short coat for noblewomen (Nara and Heian period)

noun:

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

noun:

• court ladies' residence (in the inner Heian Palace) ➜ 五舎

noun:

• everyday robes worn by males of the imperial family, nobility, etc. (from the Heian period onward)

noun:

• flower-comparing contest (Heian period)

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• absentee appointment to a distant administrative post (Nara and Heian periods) - archaism

noun:

• Sue ware (type of unglazed pottery made from the middle of the Kofun era through the Heian era) ➜ 穴窯

noun:

• court ladies' residence (in the inner Heian Palace) ➜ 五舎

noun:

• costume for women serving in the inner palace (Heian period) - archaism

noun:

• political operations; (Heian Period) political operations and ceremonies of the Imperial Court; (Edo Period) civil suit

noun:

• cutting a person's sidelocks; evenly cut sidelocks (symbol of adulthood for noblewomen in the Heian era); ritual of cutting the sidelocks (coming-of-age ceremony for women from about 1568-1867) - archaism

noun:

• court lady; lady-in-waiting (Heian period)
• separate room in a palace (esp. for a lady) (Heian period) ➜ 曹司
• room for a very low class prostitute
• very low class prostitute ➜ 局女郎

noun:

• greater palace; area centered on the inner palace, home to various administrative bodies (in Heian period Kyoto) ➜ 内裏

noun:

• stream (in a Japanese garden); narrow stream flowing through a traditional garden (esp. in a Heian period villa) ➜ 寝殿造り
• watering (potted plants, bonsai, etc.)

noun:

• many priests; (Heian era) monk-soldiers

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• Collections of the Twenty-One Eras; twenty-one collections of waka compiled by imperial command (early Heian to early Muromachi) ➜ 勅撰和歌集

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• workshop ［さいくじょ］ ➜ 工房
• Heian and Kamakura-period furniture workshop (established in temples and various government bodies)
• Edo period office which administered tenders for arms, armor, etc.

noun:

• sitting outdoors - archaism
• room that served both as a reception room and as a living room in a Heian-period mansion ➜ 寝殿造り
• temporary sitting place installed in the garden at the imperial court, used on the occasion of archery or sumo ceremonies