noun:

• prosperous period

noun / ~の noun:

• growth period (in children)

noun:

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

noun:

• Wei, Jin, and Southern and Northern Dynasties period (220-589 CE)

noun:

• period of employment

noun:

• fund-raising tournaments of Edo period - four character idiom - Sumo term

noun:

• stable period (with ref. to pregnancy, typically from 4th month when the placenta is fully formed, morning sickness usually goes away and risk of miscarriage decreases)

noun:

• secret language used in the postwar Showa period where certain words are read backwards - from ジャズ read backwards - Linguistics term

noun:

• pre-Qin period (of Chinese history) ➜ 秦

noun:

• Japanese as spoken during the Edo period - Linguistics term

noun:

• Ritsuryo period (mid 7th-10th centuries CE) ➜ 律令制

noun / ~の noun:

• definite period or term

noun:

• shell-matching game popular with court aristocrats during the Heian period
• tribadism - colloquialism - vulgar

noun:

• training period; residency (esp. medical); internship

noun:

• lactation period

noun:

• test (testing) period

noun:

• first period (e.g. first class in school day)

noun:

• days of one's menstrual period - from blue meaning melancholy or depressed - From English "blue day"

noun:

• official during the ritsuryo period who was allowed to use the state-provided stables and horses - archaism

noun:

• poetry of the Tang period; Tang poetry

noun:

• period of the northern and southern dynasties (in China, 5th-6th c. CE in Japan, 1336-92)

noun:

• allowing oneself meat, fish or alcohol after a period of abstaining

noun:

• copyright protection period

noun:

• Yoshino period (Japan's Northern and Southern Courts period, esp. from the viewpoint of the legitimacy of the Southern Court, 1336-1392 CE) - obscure term ➜ 南北朝時代

noun:

• compared to previous period; quarter-to-quarter basis; from the previous quarter