noun:

• Edo period (1603-1868 CE)

noun:

• officially sanctioned brothel (Edo-period) ➜ 女郎屋・妓楼

noun:

• (Edo-period) jail warden (gaol)

noun:

• Edo-period Japanese card game - sometimes written 宇牟須牟骨牌 - From Portuguese "um sum carta" ➜ 天正カルタ

noun:

• censor; overseer; inspector (Edo period)

noun:

• jail for women (Edo period)

noun:

• (clandestine) brothel (Edo period); whorehouse

noun:

• toy coin (Edo period)

noun:

• senior town administrator (Edo period) ➜ 町年寄

noun:

• mirror - archaism - obscure term
• Mafutsu no Kagami (alternate name for Yata no Kagami, the mirror of the Imperial regalia) ➜ 八咫鏡

noun:

• exported teachers during Meiji period Antonym: 留学生

noun / ~する noun:

• spending one night ahead (e.g. at a hotel near the airport the night before catching a flight); spending the night before ➜ 後泊【こうはく】

noun:

• immortal mountain wizard (in Taoism); mountain man (esp. a hermit)
• one not bound by earthly desires or the thoughts of normal men

noun / ~する noun:

• buying up plots of land by force to resell at a large profit; land sharking
• raising the ground level (with fill)

noun:

• tea ceremony stand with an enclosed shelf (invented by Takeno Jouou)
• small cupboard or closed shelf on the side of a tokonoma ➜ 袋戸棚

noun:

• broken windows theory; criminological theory stating that serious crime can be prevented by maintaining the good physical condition of an urban environment

noun:

• turning evil into good through indoctrination; following the teachings of Buddha to turn the world's evil into good - Buddhism term

noun:

• flag with a red circle on a white background
• the Japanese flag ➜ 日章旗

expression / ichidan verb:

• to be able to see (oft. used in the negative) ➜ 見える【みえる】・目【め】

noun:

• last guest (tea ceremony); third guest of honour (honor); guest who sits in the seat furthest from the host and assists in various ways ➜ 詰め【つめ】・次客【じきゃく】・正客【しょうきゃく】

suffix noun:

• -like; pseudo-; mock ...; imitation ...; in the style of ...

noun:

• comical character who mocks or apes the main character (in Japanese performing arts)
• criticism; censure - archaism

noun:

• rainy season (in Japan from early June to mid-July)
• rain during the rainy season

noun:

• small child (esp. a servant child in the Heian-period imperial palace) - archaism

expression:

• no one knows what the future holds; the future is a closed book; one sun (unit of measurement) ahead is darkness [literal] - proverb

noun:

• (in Japan) 3rd note of the ancient chromatic scale (approx. E) ➜ 十二律・太簇
• (in gagaku) scale similar to the Dorian mode on E ➜ 律旋・六調子