noun:

• type of Japanese hairstyle for young women (late Edo period)

noun:

• long holiday (esp. Golden Week in late April and early May) ➜ ゴールデンウィーク

noun:

• mekuri karuta (card game popular in the late Edo period)
• hanafuda; Japanese playing cards (12 suits of 4 cards, each suit representing a month indicated by a flower) ➜ 花札

noun:

• Gelaohui (secret Chinese society of the late Xing dynasty) ➜ 会党

noun:

• written imperial order (late Heian period)

noun:

• children's lunch box of cooked rice and a Western-style side dish (popular late Meiji and Taisho periods)

noun:

• (late Edo-period) idea of uniting the court and the shogunate

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:

• deceased (one's late) grandfather

godan ~る verb / intransitive verb:

• to panic (from the flu panics of late 2000's and early 2010's); to act frantically; to act bizarrely - slang ➜ タミフル

expression:

• just safe (e.g. just avoiding being late, failing an exam, etc.); just (barely) OK - colloquialism Antonym: ギリギリアウト ➜ ぎりぎり・セーフ

expression:

• just safe (e.g. just avoiding being late, failing an exam, etc.); just (barely) OK - colloquialism - abbreviation ➜ ぎりぎりセーフ

noun:

• (late Edo-period) principle of excluding foreigners

noun:

• dance where a female dancer dresses up as a man (late Heian to early Kamakura period)
• noh dance performed by a man without a mask

noun:

• alcohol which must be drunk as a punishment (e.g. for losing a contest or arriving late) ➜ 罰杯

noun:

• evacuation of school children (from major cities to more rural areas, esp. during late World War II)

noun:

• thick Japanese paper resembling Chinese paper (from late Edo period onward) ➜ 唐紙【とうし】

noun:

• Deer-Antler-Cutting Ceremony (held in Nara between late October and early November)

noun:

• Monotis (genus of Late Triassic bivalve) - From Latin

noun:

• short love song (popular in late Edo period)

noun:

• court mourning (for the late emperor or empress); national mourning

noun:

• red Fuji; when Mt Fuji appears red because of the sun's rays (esp. in the early morning from late summer to early autumn)

noun:

• Western school; school dedicated to the study of the West and Western languages (late Edo and Meiji periods)

noun:

• thank God it's Friday; TGIF; going out on Friday night; flowery Friday (when young men et al. stay out late) [literal] - from 花の金曜日

noun:

• German silver; nickel silver
• silver coinage imported to Japan during the late Edo and early Meiji periods