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• small seal script (arising during China's Warring States period) ➜ 六体

noun:

• steward in charge of the affairs of nobles of the third rank and higher (from the middle of the Heian period)
• administrative position (Kamakura and Muromachi periods) ➜ 政所

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• long, thin, roofless small boat (used as a river taxi during the Edo period)

noun:

• town elder (Edo period); town leader; alderman

noun:

• Tachibana Shinto (Edo-period sect of Suika Shinto popularized by Mitsuyoshi Tachibana) ➜ 垂加神道

noun:

• senior town administrator (Edo period) ➜ 町年寄

noun:

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

noun:

• assisting town official (Edo period) ➜ 町名主・町年寄

noun:

• door separating the inner castle from the outer castle (Edo period)

noun:

• earplug (traditional jewellery worn in the earlobe, popular in Jomon-period Japan) - archaism ➜ 耳当

noun:

• (period of) low stock prices; falling stock prices

noun:

• room or pavilion of residence for the master of the house (Heian period palatial-style architecture) ➜ 寝殿造
• room where the emperor usually lives in the imperial palace

noun:

• men's hairstyle with small sideburns and a wide forehead (Edo period)

noun:

• tax paid to avoid forced labor (ritsuryo period) ➜ 力役

noun:

• Mountain School (of Song-period Tiantai Buddhism) - Buddhism term ➜ 山外

noun:

• Gui Cang (Yin period method of Chinese divination)

noun:

• low class licensed prostitute (Edo period)

noun:

• money broker (Muromachi period) - archaism

noun:

• government-run workshop of Buddhist sculptors (during the Nara period) ➜ 仏所

noun:

• woman's hairstyle (Edo period) (made popular by a Yoshiwara prostitute called Katsuyama)

noun:

• Yokoyama Shinto (Edo-period Shinto sect promoted by Masae Yokoyama)

noun:

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

noun:

• samurai general (esp. during the Sengoku period)

noun:

• former Christian (forced to apostatize during the Edo period); fallen Christian

noun:

• small western mirror with mercury added to the glass (Edo period) ➜ 和鏡