noun:

• sociolect or secret language used by prostitutes in red-light districts (Edo period); vulgar words used by prostitutes (Edo period) - archaism - Linguistics term

noun:

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

noun:

• bulletin board displaying the name, age, offence, etc. of a criminal sentenced to death (Edo period) - archaism

noun:

• candy vendor (esp. an Edo-period candy vendor who sold candy while walking around playing the flute or another musical instrument); candy vender

noun:

• Korean delegation to Japan (Edo period)

noun:

• mekuri karuta (card game popular in the late Edo period)
• hanafuda; Japanese playing cards (12 suits of 4 cards, each suit representing a month indicated by a flower) ➜ 花札

noun:

• feudal lord who did not leave his domains to meet the shogun in Kyoto (during the Muromachi period)

noun:

• female prostitute working at a bathhouse (Edo period) ➜ 風呂屋者

noun:

• provincial governor (from the middle of the Heian period)

noun:

• soft, crumpled, unlacquered headwear (often worn by soldiers under their helmets from the Kamakura period onward) ➜ 烏帽子

noun:

• father (esp. used in samurai families prior to the Meiji period) - polite language

noun:

• Institute for the Study of Western Books (Edo period); Institute for the Investigation of Foreign Books

noun:

• ordinary woman secretly engaged in prostitution (Edo period) - archaism - four character idiom

noun:

• woman in waiting in the inner part of a lord's mansion (Edo period) - archaism ➜ 御殿女中

noun:

• dawn (sometimes esp. in ref. to the 16th day of the lunar month onward) ➜ 夜明け

noun:

• territorial ruler (Yamato-period) ➜ 県【あがた】

noun:

• geisha from the Fukagawa red light district in Edo (Edo period) - colloquialism ➜ 辰巳芸者

ichidan verb:

• to hold onto (for a long period); to persist in; to maintain

noun:

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

noun:

• uprising (during the Muromachi period) demanding debt cancellation orders - four character idiom

noun:

• prostitute from the Yoshiwara district of a fairly high rank (Edo period)

noun:

• written imperial order (late Heian period)

noun:

• statute-labor service (ritsuryo period); socage - archaism

expression:

• around the end of (a period of time)

noun:

• agency for employing servants and arranging marriages (Edo period); mediator; go-between ➜ 口入れ屋
• flattery; flatterer
• Keian era (1648.2.15-1652.9.18) ［慶安］