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• first session (trading day) of the year

noun:

• assistant vice-minister (ritsuryo system, early Meiji period)

noun:

• bow-shaped whale-bone or copper hairpins used to increase the volume on the side of a woman's hair (Edo period) - archaism - obscure term

noun:

• hakama for women (esp. hakama worn by female students and teachers in the Meiji period) - archaism

noun:

• stopping place for horse-drawn carriages and rickshaws (Edo period); high way resting place
• wholesale rag dealer

noun / ~する noun:

• placing in a list (top ten, popularity, sales, etc.) - From English "rank in"

noun:

• (clandestine) brothel (Edo period); whorehouse

noun:

• type of iron sword with curved pommel (Nara period)

noun / ~の noun:

• Cryptozoic (period)

noun:

• group of persons working at the imperial court (Yamato period)
• various craftsmen and artisans under the ritsuryo system

noun:

• magistrate of Nagasaki (Edo period)

noun:

• doctor to a shogun or daimyo (Edo period)

noun:

• whipping, stone placement, and shrimp-tie bondage (three forms of Edo-period torture) ➜ 海老責め・石抱き・鞭打ち

noun:

• morning chill (of a summer's day) - archaism

noun:

• burning of New Year's gate decorations (usu. on the 15th day of the New Year)

noun:

• prostitute working in clandestine brothel (Edo period) ➜ 暗屋

noun:

• (Edo-period) account book

noun:

• subordinate of a hired thief-taker (Edo period) - archaism ➜ 岡っ引き

noun:

• type of woman's hairdo (Edo period) ➜ 島田髷

noun:

• toy coin (Edo period)

noun:

• ceremony performed by Chinese merchants disembarking in Nagasaki (Edo period) - obscure term

noun:

• hanging curtain used in place of a wall (Heian period) - archaism ➜ とばり

noun:

• Chrysanthemum Festival (the 9th day of the 9th lunar month) (one of the five annual festivals) ➜ 五節句

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• bathhouse used for prostitution (Edo period) ➜ 湯女

noun:

• officially sanctioned brothel (Edo-period) ➜ 女郎屋・妓楼