noun / ~する noun:

• studying in the morning (by oneself); brief "self-study" period before morning classes begin

noun:

• Copper Age (period in which metal tools started to be used alongside stone tools)

noun:

• genre of Heian-period Japanese court music (primarily consisting of gagaku-styled folk melodies)

noun:

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

noun:

• Kaiseijo (school of foreign studies set up by the shogunate during the Edo period)

noun:

• Protectorate General of Beiting; Tang-period Chinese office established in Xinjiang in 702 CE ➜ 都護府

noun:

• skillful tanka poet ➜ 短歌
• official in charge of court poetry and music (ritsuryo period)
• poet

noun:

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

noun:

• small boat used for unloading goods from a large anchored boat (Edo period); lighter ➜ 瀬取り船

noun / ~する noun:

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

noun:

• Edo-period realm of the Japanese (as opposed to the Ainu) in southern Hokkaido ➜ 蝦夷地【えぞち】

noun:

• former Christian (forced to apostatize during the Edo period); fallen Christian

expression / noun:

• doing or receiving something good by accident or through the invitation of somebody else; being pulled to the Zenkoji temple by a cow [literal] - idiom

expression / noun:

• match made in heaven; perfect match; great coupling; bush warbler in a plum tree (a common motif in poetry and classical Japanese painting) [literal] - idiom

noun:

• last moment; eleventh hour - idiom
• platform made of dirt used to perform executions (decapitations) in the Edo period - orig. meaning

noun:

• six sects of Buddhism brought to Japan during the Nara period (Sanlun, Satyasiddhi, Faxiang, Abhidharmakosha, Vinaya, and Huayan)

noun:

• boiling in an iron pot
• boiling to death (punishment during the Warring States period)

noun:

• Edo-period mouth harp (with a hairpin-like frame and a long straight tongue)

noun:

• state-sponsored temples, particularly those favored and protected by the shogunate during the Kamakura period

expression / godan ~す verb:

• to let your hair down; to have fun after a period of work or stress

noun:

• Protectorate General of Annam; Han-period Chinese office established in Hanoi in 622 CE ➜ 都護府

noun:

• hakama for women (esp. hakama worn by female students and teachers in the Meiji period) - archaism

expression:

• to be unable to accomplish something because one has chosen the wrong method; to ask for the impossible; to look for fish by climbing a tree [literal] - from Mencius - proverb

ichidan verb / intransitive verb:

• to spill; to fall out of; to overflow
• to peek through; to become visible (although normally not)
• to escape (of a smile, tear, etc.)

noun:

• skeleton (of a vertebrate, ship, building, etc.)
• transparency (revealing the inner workings of a device); translucency; see-through body
• skeleton (sport)
• skeleton (code) - IT term