noun:

• barbed metal weapon for catching criminals (Edo period)

noun:

• (Edo-period) guardhouses within the city

noun:

• barbed T-shaped weapon for catching thieves (Edo period)

noun:

• half an hour (period of); half hour

noun:

• the three weapons for catching criminals (Edo period) ➜ 刺股・突棒・袖搦

noun:

• palace kitchen in which final preparations to the imperial family's meals (e.g. reheating) were made (Heian period)
• kitchen (in a noble's manor)

noun:

• techniques for arresting criminals (Edo period) - archaism

noun:

• tile block print (newspaper in Tokugawa period)

noun:

• Western medicine (as introduced to Japan by the Dutch during the Edo period)

noun:

• type of male haircut (Edo period)

noun:

• assistant in a duel (e.g. a cockfight, poetry contest, etc.) (Heian period)
• older male in an homosexual relationship ➜ 念者

noun:

• Tokaido (Edo-period Edo-Kyoto highway)

noun:

• Wamyoruijusho (famous Heian-period Japanese dictionary)

noun:

• dancing girl (end of the Heian period) - archaism
• prostitute
• tempo in gagaku ➜ 雅楽【ががく】

noun:

• small child (esp. a servant child in the Heian-period imperial palace) - archaism

noun:

• Qi (kingdom in China during the Spring and Autumn Period and the Period of the Warring States); Ch'i

noun:

• painting representing reeds around water with rocks, grass or birds made using characters (Heian period)
• characters written in a way inspired from that style

noun:

• new Zaibatsu (formed after the Meiji period) ➜ 財閥

noun:

• persons organized into gangs and wearing flashy clothes, who styled themselves as "chivalrous men" (Edo period) ➜ 男伊達

noun:

• Chinese name for a high government office (ritsuryo period)
• alias; pseudonym ［からな］ - archaism

noun:

• days (period) (designated) for the seeding in of exhibits

noun:

• protohistory (the period between prehistory and history)

noun:

• provincial military governor turned daimyo (Muromachi period) (distinct from the shugo bureaucrats of the Kamakura period) - archaism

noun:

• food-vending boat (serving ferries, etc. during the Edo period)

noun:

• separation of Buddhism and Shintoism (government policy during the beginning of the Meiji period) - four character idiom ➜ 神仏習合