noun:

• Tsuchimikado Shinto (synthesis of Shinto and Onmyōdō formulated by Yasutomi Tsuchimikado in the mid-Edo period) ➜ 陰陽道

noun:

• travelling inspector of the provincial governments (Nara- and Heian-period position)

noun:

• foreign ship (esp. of Spanish and Portuguese ships arriving from the south prior to the Edo period)

noun:

• resting place between inn towns (Edo period); town situated between two post towns

noun:

• ichthyornis (extinct Cretaceous-period seabird)

noun:

• secret language of court ladies (Muromachi period)

noun:

• grave-site with circular embankment (Jomon period)

noun:

• slow-paced style of shamisen music with vocal accompaniment (popular during the late Edo period) - 歌沢 was used especially by the Tora school that emphasized voice; 哥沢 was used especially by the Shiba school that emphasized shamisen

noun:

• deep-fried mochi (Heian period) - obscure term - Food term

noun:

• female assistant who scrubbed customers at public baths and also offered sexual services (Edo period) - archaism ➜ 湯女

noun:

• first lighting of the hearth in a Zen temple (first day of the 10th or 11th month) ➜ 閉炉

noun:

• saros (period of approximately 18 years and 11 days between repetition of eclipses)

noun:

• imperial palace temporarily built outside of the great imperial palace (Heian period) ➜ 内裏

noun:

• sleeveless ceremonial robe for samurai (replacing the Muromachi period suou) ➜ 素襖
• sleeveless robe worn by commoners - archaism

noun:

• K-T boundary (between the Cretaceous Period and the Tertiary Period)

noun:

• jail for women (Edo period)

noun:

• state (or period) of life - Buddhism term ➜ 四有

noun:

• female prostitute working at a bathhouse (Edo period) ➜ ゆな

noun:

• copper coin (Edo period)

noun:

• moving picture (i.e. a movie; term esp. used during the silent movie period) - obsolete term

noun / ~する noun:

• closing of the fireplace in a Zen temple (first day of the 2nd month) ➜ 開炉

noun:

• form of ancient Chinese entertainment similar to a circus (brought to Japan during the Nara period) ➜ 猿楽

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:

• type of Japanese hairstyle for young women (late Edo period)

noun:

• highway route (Edo period); main route ➜ 街道