noun:

• form of astrology based on the Xiuyaojing (brought to Japan in the Heian period) ➜ 宿曜

noun:

• official in charge of the administration of domains and general affairs of powerful noble families (from the middle of the Heian period)
• titled lady (legal wife of an important official) - honorific language - abbreviation ➜ 北の政所
• government office related to finances (Kamakura and Muromachi periods)
• clerk working for large temples and shrines

noun:

• Six Kingdoms (of China's Warring States period: Qi, Chu, Yan, Han, Wei & Zhao) ➜ 戦国時代

noun:

• Miwa Shinto (sect of amalgamated Shinto developed in the Muromachi Period) ➜ 両部神道

noun:

• private temple (Ritsuryo period); non-state-sponsored temple ➜ 官寺

expression / noun:

• collecting herbs and pulling out young pine trees by the roots (annual event held on the first Day of the Rat of the New Year)

noun:

• last train (of the day)

noun:

• (Edo-period) room for confining criminals or lunatics

noun:

• the four grand national holidays (Prayer to the Four Quarters, Empire Day, the Emperor's Birthday, Emperor Meiji's birthday; 1927-1948) ➜ 紀元節・四方拝・天長節・明治節

noun:

• using multiple simple paper masks to represent different emotions in a play (from the middle of the Edo period) ➜ 百面相
• simple paper mask ➜ 目鬘

noun:

• local fire brigade (Edo period); provincial fire brigade - archaism

noun:

• (late Edo-period) principle of excluding foreigners

noun / ~の noun:

• Cambrian system (i.e. rock layer deposited during the Cambrian period)

noun:

• commander (during the Sengoku period); military leader; general; admiral; military strategist - Military term ➜ 軍配・戦国時代

noun:

• fifty-three stations on the Tōkaidō (Edo-Kyoto highway in Edo-period Japan)

noun:

• rite welcoming back the gods from Izumo Shrine (on the last day of the tenth lunar month) ➜ 神送り

noun:

• rice cakes cut into rectangles (esp. eaten on New Year's Day) - Food term

noun:

• collecting herbs and pulling out young pine trees by the roots (annual event held on the first Day of the Rat in the New Year) ➜ 子の日の遊び

noun:

• torture (in the Edo-period)

noun:

• study of calculation (ritsuryo period); the way of calculation

noun:

• low class samurai, who guarded the shogun on outings (Edo period)

noun:

• dance where a female dancer dresses up as a man (late Heian to early Kamakura period)
• noh dance performed by a man without a mask

noun:

• ticket good for multiple performances (e.g. a whole day, including matinee and evening performances); season ticket; through ticket [literal] ➜ 通し切符

noun:

• government office in charge of court music (ritsuryo period) ➜ 雅楽・律令

noun:

• type of dance where the ground is stamped (Heian period) ➜ 歌垣