noun:

• samurai-house style (Kamakura period)

noun:

• native Japanese kanji (esp. used during the Edo period) - archaism ➜ 国字
• made-up kanji; Chinese character of one's own creation
• creating a character with a group of people ➜ 人文字

noun:

• (Nichiren Buddhism) memorial service for Nichiren (13th day of 10th month) ➜ 会式【えしき】

noun:

• Japanized version of classical Chinese (used from Heian period onward)

noun:

• large seal script (dating from China's Spring and Autumn period onward) ➜ 六体

noun:

• red eboshi (headgear worn by Japanese men prior to and during the Edo period, which was ordinarily black in color) ➜ 亭主の好きな赤烏帽子
• metaphor for an odd item or having a taste for such an item

noun:

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

noun:

• three large cities (esp. Edo, Kyoto, and Osaka during the Edo period)

noun:

• type of brothel in Yoshiwara (Edo period) ➜ 埋茶女郎

noun:

• ceremony for appointing officials other than ministers (from the Heian period)

noun:

• hired thief taker (Edo-period); private detective; private secret policeman ➜ 岡っ引き

noun:

• Chinese-style vegetarian cuisine (popular in the Edo period)

noun:

• west wind in the early spring (traditionally on the night of the 20th day of the second month of the lunar calendar); wind that blows seashells ashore [literal]

noun:

• kiheitai (irregular militia during the Bakumatsu period)

noun:

• right of samurai to kill commoners for perceived affronts (Edo period)

noun:

• neo-Confucianism (esp. from the Song period) ➜ 宋学

noun:

• free markets and open guilds (policy enacted by daimyo in the Azuchimomoyama Period (1573-1598) that weakened the strict regulations surrounding business establishment in market places and important cities, allowing new businesses to open in Joka-machi market places)

noun / ~する noun:

• stripping a samurai of clothes and swords and exiling him naked (Edo period punishment)

noun:

• director (of the ritsuryo-period Imperial Prosecuting and Investigating Office) ➜ 弾正台

noun:

• guard house in a samurai style house (Kamakura period) ➜ 武家造

noun:

• three methods of Chinese divination (Lian Shan of the Xia period, Gui Cang of the Yin period and Zhou Yi of the Zhou period)

noun:

• town order (Edo period); order issued by a shogun or daimyo affecting a whole town, and passed on by town officials

noun:

• kariginu (informal clothes worn by the nobility from the Heian period onwards) - archaism
• (during the Edo period) patterned kariginu ➜ 布衣【ほい】

noun:

• low-class prostitute who was kept in a sort of cage at the front of the establishment (Edo period)

noun:

• important local businessemen (in the Muromachi period); local leaders - archaism