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• the right to bear a surname and to wear a sword (during the Edo period) - four character idiom

noun:

• type of Japanese woman's hairstyle using a hairpin (Edo period) ➜ 笄髷

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• erotic or pornographic book (Edo period)

noun:

• standing (for a long period of time); continuing to stand

noun:

• complete state ownership of land and citizens (proclaimed by the Taika reforms) (Ritsuryo period) ➜ 私地私民

noun:

• (one of) the eight earliest and most prestigious high schools (Meiji period) - From English "number school"

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• hired thief taker (Edo period); private secret policeman; private detective - archaism ➜ 目明かし・御用聞き

noun:

• hakama without gussets (worn by female students and later male students in the Meiji period); hakama without gores - archaism

noun:

• provincial governorate (beginning in the late Heian period)

noun:

• small boat used for unloading goods from a large anchored boat (Edo period); lighter ➜ 瀬取り船

noun:

• Edo Castle (residence of the Shogun during the Edo period, now the site of the Tokyo Imperial Palace)

noun:

• people belonging to a hereditary occupation group (Yamato period) ➜ 部【べ】

noun:

• Country of Na (a country that existed within Japan during the Yayoi period)

noun:

• district governor (Ritsuryo period)

noun:

• vice-minister (Meiji period); undersecretary ➜ 大輔【たいふ】・次官【じかん】

noun:

• assistant vice-minister (ritsuryo system, early Meiji period)

noun:

• bow-shaped whale-bone or copper hairpins used to increase the volume on the side of a woman's hair (Edo period) - archaism - obscure term

noun:

• hakama for women (esp. hakama worn by female students and teachers in the Meiji period) - archaism

noun:

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

noun:

• (clandestine) brothel (Edo period); whorehouse

noun:

• type of iron sword with curved pommel (Nara period)

noun / ~の noun:

• Cryptozoic (period)

noun:

• group of persons working at the imperial court (Yamato period)
• various craftsmen and artisans under the ritsuryo system

noun:

• magistrate of Nagasaki (Edo period)

noun:

• doctor to a shogun or daimyo (Edo period)