noun:

• uprising (during the Muromachi period) demanding debt cancellation orders - four character idiom

noun:

• prostitute from the Yoshiwara district of a fairly high rank (Edo period)

noun:

• written imperial order (late Heian period)

noun:

• statute-labor service (ritsuryo period); socage - archaism

expression:

• around the end of (a period of time)

noun:

• agency for employing servants and arranging marriages (Edo period); mediator; go-between ➜ 口入れ屋
• flattery; flatterer
• Keian era (1648.2.15-1652.9.18) ［慶安］

noun:

• Nakasendo (Edo-period Edo-Kyoto highway) ➜ 東海道【とうかいどう】

noun:

• rapid economic growth (esp. that of Japan in the post-WWII period)

noun:

• (Edo-period) didactic novel or fiction

noun:

• peasant uprising (Muromachi period)

noun:

• prostitute of the second rank (below the taiyu) (Edo period) ➜ 太夫

noun:

• (government) inspector-general (Edo period); upper superintendent officer

noun:

• Korean delegation to Japan (Edo period) ➜ 朝鮮通信使

noun:

• bracelet (usu. dating from the Kofun period) - archaism ➜ 古墳時代

noun:

• merchant guild entrusted by the shogunate to manage its respective trade (Edo period)

noun:

• comic novel (Edo period)

noun:

• (late Edo-period) idea of uniting the court and the shogunate

noun:

• Western-inspired art (Edo period); oil painting - archaism ➜ 秋田蘭画【あきたらんが】

noun:

• province-wide uprising (Muromachi period); provincial revolt

noun:

• low class prostitute in Yoshiwara (Edo period)

noun:

• boiling to death (punishment during the Warring States period) ➜ 釜茹で【かまゆで】

noun:

• (Edo-period) humorous literature

noun:

• low door used in bathhouses to prevent the hot water from cooling (Edo period)

noun:

• field ration (Sengoku period)

noun:

• illustrated storybook with yellow covers (Edo period)