noun:

• card indicating a pass in the higher Chinese civil service examinations - archaism ➜ 科挙

noun:

• leather or cloth wrapped around the handle of a sword

noun / ~する noun:

• song and dance performed as an offering to the gods ➜ 神楽

noun:

• three-lips (freshwater fish of the minnow family, Opsariichthys uncirostris)

noun:

• twelve coinages minted in Japan during the Nara and Heian periods

noun:

• leather strap binding the plates of traditional Japanese armor (armour)

noun:

• tree swayed by the wind ➜ 風木
• thinking about one's deceased parents - archaism ➜ 風樹の嘆

noun:

• white powder for use on the neck (e.g. by geisha)

noun:

• rice-bran bag (used for scrubbing the skin when bathing)

noun:

• rice-bran bag (used for scrubbing the skin when bathing) ➜ 糠袋

noun:

• highest ranking prostitute in Yoshiwara (from the Houreki era onward) ➜ 宝暦【ほうれき】

expression:

• whatever misfortune happens; even if spears fall out of the sky [literal] ➜ 雨が降ろうが槍が降ろうが【あめがふろうがやりがふろうが】

noun:

• main southern gate of the Heian Palace's reception compound ➜ 朝堂院【ちょうどういん】

noun:

• reception compound; part of the palace where important ceremonies were held ➜ 大内裏

noun:

• fee paid for the services of a geisha or prostitute

noun:

• seven residential pavilions for court ladies (in the inner Heian Palace) ➜ 後宮

noun:

• pillow made from bamboo or cane (for use during the summer)

noun:

• falling to the ground like a Buddha statue being thrown down

noun:

• Cardiidae; family of bivalve molluscs comprising the cockles

noun:

• Veneridae; family of bivalve molluscs comprising the Venus clams

noun:

• Naticidae; family of molluscs comprising the moon snails

noun:

• Buccinidae; family of gastropod mollusc comprising the true whelks

noun:

• High Court of Justice (UK); Parlement (France, during the ancien régime) ➜ 最高法院

noun:

• Battle of the Philippine Sea (June 19-20, 1944)

noun:

• perineum; area between sex organs and the anus ➜ 会陰【えいん】
• very narrow passage