noun:

• language used in red-light districts during the Edo period ➜ 郭言葉

noun:

• Meiji period

noun / ~の noun:

• glacial period; ice age ➜ 氷河時代

noun:

• test period; experimental period - IT term

noun:

• synodic period

noun:

• period of Japanese economic expansion from February 2002 to October 2007

noun / suffix noun:

• special Nara-period administrative division for areas containing a detached palace (Yoshino and Izumi) - archaism

noun:

• secretary; third highest-ranking officials in the Dazaifu - archaism ➜ 大宰府

noun:

• licensed trade between Japan and Ming-dynasty China during the Muromachi period

noun:

• occupation period (e.g. post-WWII period during which the Allies occupied Japan)

noun:

• problems that affect a period of time; hardships peculiar to an age; hard problems of the times

noun:

• Edo-period unit of silver coinage ［銀目］
• steel-blue eyes (e.g. of a cat)
• silver eye (species of beardfish, Polymixia japonica) - usually written using kana alone - abbreviation ➜ 銀目鯛

noun:

• type of popular literature from the late Edo period

noun:

• Spring and Autumn period (of Chinese history, approx. 770-403 BCE)

noun:

• Heian-period ceremony where a newlywed groom and bride eat a rice-cake on the third night after the wedding ceremony ➜ 三日の餅【みかのもちい】

noun:

• thousand-year period

noun:

• type of silver coin in the Edo period

noun:

• Quaternary period

noun:

• period of Japanese economic expansion from February 2002 to October 2007 ➜ だらだらかげろう景気

noun:

• days of one's menstrual period ➜ 生理日

noun:

• staff at a horse changing station during the ritsuryo period - archaism

noun:

• type of public bath from the Edo period

noun:

• Jougan period (of art history, 859-877 CE) ➜ 弘仁貞観時代

noun:

• Song-period neo-Confucianism (based esp. on the teachings of Zhu Xi) ➜ 朱子学

noun:

• grace period; moratorium

noun:

• Heian-period ceremony where a newlywed groom and bride eat a rice-cake on the third night after the wedding ceremony ➜ 三日の餅