noun:

• year-before period; corresponding period of previous year; same period a year ago

noun:

• court of law in the Edo period, in which the parties sat on white sand - archaism

noun:

• Permian period

noun:

• Edo-period hairstyle for the common man (the entire head shaved just above the ear, with the remainder tied up in the back) - archaism

noun:

• busy period - IT term

noun:

• incubation period

noun:

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

noun:

• Kofun period (of Japanese history, 250-538 CE); Tumulus period ➜ 古墳

noun:

• open period

noun:

• cargo ships that sailed the Japan Sea during the Edo period - archaism

noun:

• the Spring and Autumn period and the Warring States period (Chinese history) - four character idiom

noun:

• clocks made in Japan, mainly in the Edo period; clocks that tell Japanese time

expression:

• in the early period (of something); at the beginning

noun:

• Shokuho period (i.e. the Azuchi-Momoyama period, approx. 1568-1600 CE) ➜ 安土桃山時代

noun:

• style of recitative dance popular during the Muromachi period (often with a military theme)

noun:

• the shogunate period; the days of the shogunate regime - four character idiom

noun:

• study period - IT term

noun:

• new schools of Japanese Buddhism founded during the Kamakura period

counter:

• ~th period (e.g. ~th class in school day) ➜ 限目

noun:

• same period of last year; the same month a year ago; year-ago month

noun:

• business handbook (with glossary) of Edo period - four character idiom

noun:

• period of economic growth

noun:

• Permian period ➜ ペルム紀

noun:

• Jōmon period

noun:

• ground stone tool from the late Jomon period (named after its similarity to the Buddhist tokko) ➜ 独鈷