noun:

• Ubume; birthing woman ghost in Japanese folklore
• woman in late pregnancy; woman on the point of giving birth ［産女・孕女］ - obscure term

noun / ~の noun:

• commoner; patriot; humble subject

noun:

• late Edo period commoner opposition movement (mid- 18th century to mid-19th century)

noun:

• cheap literature; writing for amusement
• light literature popular in the late Edo period

noun:

• kanji "leg" or "foot" radical at left
• being (too) late; the past; the previous ［あとへん］

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:

• tea-drinking companion; crony; buddy
• spouse married late in life for companionship

noun:

• just before noon
• late-morning snack

adverb / ~と adverb:

• dilatorily; sluggishly - onomatopoeia

~する noun:

• to take a lot of time; to become late; to take it easy

noun:

• six o'clock
• six periods of a day (morning, midday, afternoon, evening, midnight, late night) ［六時］ - Buddhism term ➜ 晨朝・日中・日没・初夜・中夜・後夜

noun:

• large cloth sack
• baggy trousers (worn in the late-Edo and early-Meiji periods by samurai while practising)

noun:

• provincial governor's office - archaism ➜ 国司
• provincial governorate (beginning in the late Heian period) - abbreviation ➜ 国衙領

noun:

• traditional Japanese poem with verses of five and seven morae repeated at least three times, usu. ending with a verse of seven ➜ 短歌
• long epic song with shamisen accompaniment (developed in Kyoto in the late 16th century) ［ながうた］ ➜ 長唄