noun:

• written language; literary language
• formal (or archaic) written style based on Heian-period Japanese

noun:

• tutor to a daimyo, etc.
• tutor to the emperor or crown prince (Meiji period)

noun:

• hairdresser (for sumo wrestlers and actors); wigmaker (for actors)
• hairdressing room (Edo period Kabuki)

noun:

• separation of Buddhism and Shintoism (government policy during the beginning of the Meiji period) - four character idiom ➜ 神仏習合

noun:

• Japanese style of calligraphy based on the gyousho style popular in the Edo period ➜ 青蓮院流

noun:

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

noun:

• question time (e.g. in parliament, diet, etc.); question period; time allowed for questions

noun / suffix noun:

• special Nara-period administrative division for areas containing a detached palace (Yoshino and Izumi) - archaism

noun:

• secretary; third highest-ranking officials in the Dazaifu - archaism ➜ 大宰府

expression / godan ~す verb:

• to pass the peak (of something); to get through the most difficult part; to be over the worst (e.g. an illness) - idiom
• to cross a pass - orig. meaning

expression / ichidan verb:

• to pass the peak (of something); to get through the most difficult part; to be over the worst (e.g. an illness) - idiom ➜ 峠を越す
• to cross a pass - orig. meaning

expression / godan ~う verb:

• to have a bad time; to go through a bitter experience; to get into trouble; to get hurt; to suffer ➜ 目にあう【めにあう】

noun:

• fire built in an iron basket (watch fire, fishing fire, etc.); bonfire; campfire ➜ 篝
• brothel-keeper (Edo period) - archaism

adverbial noun / temporal noun:

• half-year (sometimes esp. as an Edo-period duration of employment) ➜ 一季
• half of a season

noun:

• a non-samurai being granted the privilege of wearing a sword (during the Edo period) - four character idiom

noun:

• sleeveless ceremonial robe for samurai (replacing the Muromachi period suou) ➜ 素襖
• sleeveless robe worn by commoners - archaism

noun:

• end of a period; end of the world

noun:

• (period of) low stock prices; falling stock prices

noun:

• (period of) high stock prices; rising stock prices

noun:

• sanitary shorts; period panties; sanitary panties ➜ サニタリーショーツ

noun:

• reduced-period procedure; curtailed operation - From English "short time"
• short homeroom (at the beginning and end of the school day) - From English "short time"

noun:

• boy or doll dressed in ancient Chinese clothes
• hairstyle inspired by such a doll (esp. for female children) (Edo period)

noun:

• letters from exiled Europeans in Jakarta to their Japanese wives and half-Japanese children (during the Edo period)

noun:

• Japanese book size (approx. 12.5cm by 17.5cm) ➜ 半紙【はんし】
• late Edo-period novelette depicting life in the red-light district ➜ 洒落本

noun:

• stopping place for horse-drawn carriages and rickshaws (Edo period); high way resting place
• wholesale rag dealer

godan ~く verb / intransitive verb:

• to reach; to arrive; to get through; to get at
• to be attentive; to pay attention
• to be delivered; to carry (e.g. sound)