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• using multiple simple paper masks to represent different emotions in a play (from the middle of the Edo period) ➜ 百面相
• simple paper mask ➜ 目鬘

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• local fire brigade (Edo period); provincial fire brigade - archaism

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• (late Edo-period) principle of excluding foreigners

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• Cambrian system (i.e. rock layer deposited during the Cambrian period)

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• commander (during the Sengoku period); military leader; general; admiral; military strategist - Military term ➜ 軍配・戦国時代

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• fifty-three stations on the Tōkaidō (Edo-Kyoto highway in Edo-period Japan)

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• torture (in the Edo-period)

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• study of calculation (ritsuryo period); the way of calculation

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• low class samurai, who guarded the shogun on outings (Edo period)

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• dance where a female dancer dresses up as a man (late Heian to early Kamakura period)
• noh dance performed by a man without a mask

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• government office in charge of court music (ritsuryo period) ➜ 雅楽・律令

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• type of dance where the ground is stamped (Heian period) ➜ 歌垣

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• Chinese coinage produced during the reign of the Yongle Emperor (used in Japan from the Muromachi period to the early Edo period)

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• clandestine Christian (during the Tokugawa period); secret Christian

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• laws established by daimyo applicable only in their own domain (during the Warring States period) ➜ 戦国大名

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• official bulletin board (esp. Edo period)
• highest bid; highest tender
• your letter ［こうさつ］ - honorific language

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• Wamyoruijusho (famous Heian-period Japanese dictionary) - abbreviation ➜ 倭名類聚鈔【わみょうるいじゅしょう】

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• beheading followed by mounting of the head on a pike in front of the prison (Edo period)

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• (Edo-period) type of humorous poem

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• proof of identity (for nobles, doctors, etc.) (Heian period) - archaism

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• palace workshop responsible for making furnishings, etc. (Heian period)

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• thin Japanese paper (used as tissue during the Edo period) - archaism ➜ 杉原紙

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• separation of farmers and samurai (system in effect from the Azuchi-Momoyama period until the Edo period)

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• Kaiseijo (school of foreign studies set up by the shogunate during the Edo period)

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• long-sleeved kimono (Heian period)