noun:

• chignon resembling a seagull's spread tail feathers (Edo-period women's hairstyle)

noun:

• bardo; state (or period) of intermediate existence between one's death and rebirth (in Japan, 49 days) - Buddhism term

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:

• bardo; state (or period) of intermediate existence between one's death and rebirth (in Japan, 49 days) - Buddhism term ➜ 中陰・四有

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:

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

noun:

• bardo; state (or period) of intermediate existence between one's death and rebirth (in Japan, 49 days) - Buddhism term ➜ 中陰

noun:

• speedrun; playing through a video game for additional challenge (e.g. as quickly as possible, to obtain the highest score, without using a certain weapon, etc.)

expression / godan ~ぐ verb:

• to sew a fox's skin to the lion's; to graft a bamboo shoot on a tree [literal] - idiom

noun:

• lost work; lost writings
• partially lost work; literary fragment; work that survives through quotations
• work of a superior quality

noun:

• Sue ware (type of unglazed pottery made from the middle of the Kofun era through the Heian era) ➜ 穴窯

noun:

• moral culture; spiritual culture; culture born through the workings of the human mind (science, religion, philosophy, religion, art, etc.) ➜ 物質文化

noun:

• parhelion; sun dog; sundog (bright spot on either side of the sun caused by refraction of sunlight through ice crystals in the atmosphere) ➜ 幻月

noun:

• paraselene; moon dog; moondog (bright spot on either side of the moon caused by refraction of moonlight through ice crystals in the atmosphere) ➜ 幻日

noun:

• higan cherry (species of weeping cherry tree, Prunus subhirtella); early-flowering cherry (around the spring equinox) ➜ 江戸彼岸
• double weeping rosebud cherry (Prunus pendula) - colloquialism ➜ 江戸彼岸

noun:

• cherry tree bearing single blossoms; single cherry blossoms

expression / noun:

• cursing ritual where one visits a shrine at 2 in the morning and nails a doll representing a person to a tree, praying for said person's death ➜ 丑の刻参り

noun:

• cursing ritual where one visits a shrine at 2 in the morning and nails a doll representing a person to a tree, praying for said person's death

temporal noun / adverbial noun:

• the other day; lately; recently; during this period
• meanwhile; in the meantime ［このかん］

noun:

• expel the barbarians; expulsion of the foreigners; late Edo period (19th century) revolutionary slogan

noun:

• short-lived rule; being in power only for a brief period; brief championship - four character idiom

noun:

• novel from the late Edo period focused on the love stories of ordinary townsfolk

noun:

• cheap literature; writing for amusement
• light literature popular in the late Edo period

noun:

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

noun:

• Country of Na (a country that existed within Japan during the Yayoi period)