noun:

• whipping, stone placement, and shrimp-tie bondage (three forms of Edo-period torture) ➜ 海老責め・石抱き・鞭打ち

noun:

• prostitute working in clandestine brothel (Edo period) ➜ 暗屋

noun:

• (Edo-period) account book

noun:

• subordinate of a hired thief-taker (Edo period) - archaism ➜ 岡っ引き

noun:

• type of woman's hairdo (Edo period) ➜ 島田髷

noun:

• toy coin (Edo period)

noun:

• ceremony performed by Chinese merchants disembarking in Nagasaki (Edo period) - obscure term

noun:

• hanging curtain used in place of a wall (Heian period) - archaism ➜ とばり

noun:

• bathhouse used for prostitution (Edo period) ➜ 湯女

noun:

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

noun:

• Tsuchimikado Shinto (synthesis of Shinto and Onmyōdō formulated by Yasutomi Tsuchimikado in the mid-Edo period) ➜ 陰陽道

noun:

• travelling inspector of the provincial governments (Nara- and Heian-period position)

noun:

• foreign ship (esp. of Spanish and Portuguese ships arriving from the south prior to the Edo period)

noun:

• resting place between inn towns (Edo period); town situated between two post towns

noun:

• ichthyornis (extinct Cretaceous-period seabird)

noun:

• secret language of court ladies (Muromachi period)

noun:

• grave-site with circular embankment (Jomon period)

noun:

• slow-paced style of shamisen music with vocal accompaniment (popular during the late Edo period) - 歌沢 was used especially by the Tora school that emphasized voice; 哥沢 was used especially by the Shiba school that emphasized shamisen

noun:

• deep-fried mochi (Heian period) - obscure term - Food term

noun:

• female assistant who scrubbed customers at public baths and also offered sexual services (Edo period) - archaism ➜ 湯女

noun:

• saros (period of approximately 18 years and 11 days between repetition of eclipses)

noun:

• imperial palace temporarily built outside of the great imperial palace (Heian period) ➜ 内裏

noun:

• sleeveless ceremonial robe for samurai (replacing the Muromachi period suou) ➜ 素襖
• sleeveless robe worn by commoners - archaism

noun:

• K-T boundary (between the Cretaceous Period and the Tertiary Period)

noun:

• jail for women (Edo period)