noun:

• number of days; period of days ➜ 日数【にっすう】
• daily interest rate

noun:

• kana literature; works written in kana in the Heian period - four character idiom

noun:

• Yokoyama Shinto (Edo-period Shinto sect promoted by Masae Yokoyama)

noun:

• sanitary shorts; period panties; sanitary panties

particle:

• from (e.g. time, place, numerical quantity); since
• from (originator); by
• because; since - follows verbs, adjectives
• out of (constituent, part)
• through (e.g. window, vestibule)
• after; since - following the te-form of a verb

expression / godan ~す verb:

• to turn misfortune into fortune (esp. through one's own efforts); to turn the potential disaster to one's advantage - idiom

expression / godan ~す verb:

• to turn misfortune into fortune (esp. through one's own efforts); to turn the potential disaster to one's advantage - idiom ➜ 災い転じて福となす【わざわいてんじてふくとなす】

noun:

• resting place between inn towns (Edo period); town situated between two post towns

noun:

• Ogosho period (between the Kansei Reforms and the Tempo Reforms, approx. 1787-1843)

noun:

• many monsters, spirits, etc. forming a line and walking through the night - four character idiom
• veritable pandemonium; large number of people plotting and doing evil; creepy characters roaming about presenting a most scandalous sight

expression / ichidan verb:

• to reveal one's upbringing (through one's words, actions, etc.); to betray one's origin; to give oneself away ➜ お里・親の顔が見たい

noun:

• traditional married woman's hair style, with an oval chignon on top
• men's hairstyle (Edo period)

noun:

• drawstring purse; money pouch
• pouch of fried tofu stuffed with var. ingredients, used in oden ➜ 御田【おでん】
• unlicensed prostitute (Edo period) - archaism

noun:

• Heian-period boarding school (for children of a specific noble clan) established near the former central university of Kyoto ➜ 大学寮・七大私学

noun:

• Heian-period student of government administration - archaism
• Buddhist scholar; researcher at a Buddhist temple; person studying Buddhism - archaism
• learning; scholarship - archaism

noun:

• group of persons working at the imperial court (Yamato period)
• various craftsmen and artisans under the ritsuryo system

noun:

• Edo-period proclamation issued by the shogunate (or a daimyo, etc.) usu. to the general populace ➜ 御触書

expression / noun:

• lost twenty years [literal]
• period of economic stagnation in Japan that began ca. 1991 and not over in the 2010s

noun:

• eta (Edo period) ➜ 穢多
• administrator of a temple - Buddhism term ➜ 座主・別当・検校
• low-ranking government official with a comparatively high salary (in medieval China) - archaism

noun:

• territory of a stall vendor
• spot on a farm where the harvest would be put in order (Edo period) - archaism

noun:

• Gempei period (late 11th century-late 12th century CE)

noun:

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

noun:

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

noun:

• Girls' Day; Dolls' Festival; Hinamatsuri ➜ ひな祭り【ひなまつり】
• menstrual day; menstrual period - slang

expression:

• up through; up until; down to - as ～に至るまで
• from ... to ... (e.g. from head to toe); everything from ... to ... - as ～から～に至るまで