noun:

• period of validity

noun:

• physically exceptional wrestler promoted straight to champion rank during Edo period - Sumo term

noun:

• colonial period

noun:

• pompadour-like hair style, popular for unmarried women in the Edo period; shimada coiffure ➜ 島田【しまだ】

noun:

• Asuka period (550-710 CE)

noun:

• unlucky for all activities, with only the period around noon being auspicious ➜ 六曜

noun:

• Edo-period form of torture in which criminals were stuffed into straw bags with their heads exposed, piled together, and whipped (commonly used on Christians)

noun:

• land-tax rate during the Edo period, in which the government took 70 percent of the year's crop and the farmers kept 30 percent - four character idiom

noun:

• Higashiyama period (cultural and artistic period of the mid-Muromachi) ➜ 室町時代

noun:

• group comprising the lowest rank of Japan's Edo-period caste system (often ex-convicts or vagrants)
• non-human - Buddhism term

noun:

• type of picture book popular in the late Edo period

noun:

• busy period; busy season

noun:

• period from midnight until the early morning
• around 4 in the morning ➜ 寅の刻

noun:

• six sects of Buddhism brought to Japan during the Nara period (Sanlun, Satyasiddhi, Faxiang, Abhidharmakosha, Vinaya, and Huayan)

noun:

• growth period

noun:

• Ogosho period (between the Kansei Reforms and the Tempo Reforms, approx. 1787-1843)

noun:

• during a period; while

noun:

• Edo period inspection of rice plants

noun / ~の noun:

• the Carboniferous Period

noun / expression:

• bird migration period

noun:

• retention period - IT term

noun:

• Bunka-Bunsei period (approx. 1804-1830 CE)

noun:

• glacial period; glacial epoch; glacial era; ice age

noun:

• type of humorous book popular in the Edo period (from the 1750s)

noun:

• period during which monks may go into a summer retreat - Buddhism term ➜ 夏安居