noun:

• state (or period) of life - Buddhism term ➜ 四有

noun:

• female prostitute working at a bathhouse (Edo period) ➜ ゆな

noun:

• copper coin (Edo period)

noun:

• moving picture (i.e. a movie; term esp. used during the silent movie period) - obsolete term

noun:

• form of ancient Chinese entertainment similar to a circus (brought to Japan during the Nara period) ➜ 猿楽

noun:

• young man (in the Edo period, esp. one with forelocks who has not yet had his coming-of-age ceremony)
• young male prostitute; young kabuki actor (who may also act as a homosexual prostitute)
• younger partner in a homosexual relationship ➜ 念者【ねんしゃ】

noun:

• type of Japanese hairstyle for young women (late Edo period)

noun:

• highway route (Edo period); main route ➜ 街道

noun:

• sociolect or secret language used by prostitutes in red-light districts (Edo period); vulgar words used by prostitutes (Edo period) - archaism - Linguistics term

noun:

• stone for cutting one's pubic hair (in public baths)(Edo period) - archaism

noun:

• bulletin board displaying the name, age, offence, etc. of a criminal sentenced to death (Edo period) - archaism

noun:

• candy vendor (esp. an Edo-period candy vendor who sold candy while walking around playing the flute or another musical instrument); candy vender

noun:

• Korean delegation to Japan (Edo period)

noun:

• mekuri karuta (card game popular in the late Edo period)
• hanafuda; Japanese playing cards (12 suits of 4 cards, each suit representing a month indicated by a flower) ➜ 花札

noun:

• feudal lord who did not leave his domains to meet the shogun in Kyoto (during the Muromachi period)

noun:

• female prostitute working at a bathhouse (Edo period) ➜ 風呂屋者

noun:

• provincial governor (from the middle of the Heian period)

noun:

• soft, crumpled, unlacquered headwear (often worn by soldiers under their helmets from the Kamakura period onward) ➜ 烏帽子

noun:

• father (esp. used in samurai families prior to the Meiji period) - polite language

noun:

• Institute for the Study of Western Books (Edo period); Institute for the Investigation of Foreign Books

noun:

• ordinary woman secretly engaged in prostitution (Edo period) - archaism - four character idiom

noun:

• woman in waiting in the inner part of a lord's mansion (Edo period) - archaism ➜ 御殿女中

noun:

• territorial ruler (Yamato-period) ➜ 県【あがた】

noun:

• geisha from the Fukagawa red light district in Edo (Edo period) - colloquialism ➜ 辰巳芸者

ichidan verb:

• to hold onto (for a long period); to persist in; to maintain