noun:

• prostitute of the lowest class (Edo period)

noun:

• system of rule during the Yamato period ➜ 部【べ】

noun:

• unidentified craft said to have washed ashore in Ibaraki Prefecture during the Edo period (sometimes alleged to have been a UFO)

noun:

• Tokugawa period (i.e. the Edo period, 1600-1867 CE) ➜ 江戸時代

noun:

• Institute for the Study of Western Books (Edo period); Institute for the Investigation of Foreign Books

noun:

• den of thieves; brothel; red-light district

noun:

• beautiful scenery of spring - four character idiom
• red-light district

noun:

• room or pavilion of residence for the master of the house (Heian period palatial-style architecture) ➜ 寝殿造
• room where the emperor usually lives in the imperial palace

noun:

• type of silver coin in the Edo period

noun:

• var. of puppet popular in the Edo period

noun:

• type of public bath from the Edo period

noun:

• period of revolution (e.g. of the sun, of the moon); orbital period

noun:

• traditional square chair with armrests and a torii-shaped back (used by the emperor, etc. during ceremonies)

noun:

• period of prohibition of remarriage; period after the cessation of a marriage in which the woman is prohibited from remarrying (100 days) - Law term

noun:

• period of prohibition of remarriage; period after the cessation of a marriage in which the woman is prohibited from remarrying (100 days) - Law term ➜ 待婚期間

noun:

• Protectorate General; Han- and Tang-period Chinese office established to pacify and control peoples on the frontier (during the Tang period, six major Protectorate Generals were established) ➜ 都護・西域都護府・安東都護府・安南都護府・安西都護府・燕然都護府・単于都護府・北庭都護府

noun:

• brothel; house of ill repute; red-light district - archaism

expression:

• the light comes from the East; the light rises from the East; ex oriente lux - from the Roman saying, in reference to Constantinople - proverb

noun:

• Rashidun period (the period of the Rightly Guided Caliphs, 632-661 CE)

noun:

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

noun:

• type of popular literature from the late Edo period

noun:

• style of recitative dance popular during the Muromachi period - abbreviation ➜ 幸若舞

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:

• Western style residences built mostly for early foreign settlers during the end of the Shogunate and the Meiji era

noun:

• (member of the generation born in) the first nine years of the Shōwa period (from 1926 to 1934) - four character idiom