Japanese history - early modern
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白州 - おしらす
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court of law in the Edo period, in which the parties sat on white sand
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蘭方 - らんぽう
Added 11 years agonoun (common) (futsuumeishi)
Western medicine (as introduced to Japan by the Dutch during the Edo period)
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- ありんす
Added 11 years agoExpressions (phrases, clauses, etc.)
variation of "arimasu" used by the prostitutes of the Yoshiwara red light district in the Edo period
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名字 帯刀 - みょうじたいとう
Added 11 years agonoun (common) (futsuumeishi)
the right to bear a surname and to wear a sword (during the Edo period)
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紅毛 夷 - こうもうい
Added 11 years agonoun (common) (futsuumeishi)
late Edo-period pejorative for the Dutch; red-haired barbarian
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宗門 改 -
宗門 改 め - しゅうもんあらため
Added 11 years agonoun (common) (futsuumeishi)
Japanese religious census used to repress Christians (Edo period)
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暮 れ六 つ - くれむつ
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Edo-period term for a time of day, roughly 6 pm
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東海道 五 十 三 次 - とうかいどうごじゅうさんつぎ
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fifty-three stages on the Tokaido (Edo-Kyoto highway in Edo-period Japan)
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戯作 - げさく
- ぎさく
Added 11 years agonoun (common) (futsuumeishi)
cheap literature; writing for amusement
light literature popular in the late Edo period
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奥 女中 - おくじょちゅう
Added 11 years agonoun (common) (futsuumeishi)
woman in waiting in the inner part of a lord's mansion (Edo period)
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天職 - てんしょく
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vocation; lifework; calling
sacred task (esp. the emperor's rule over the nation)
prostitute of the second-highest class (Edo period)
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大夫 - たゆう
Added 11 years agonoun (common) (futsuumeishi)
high-ranking Noh actor
head of a school of noh performance
high ranking courtesan (esp. in Yoshiwara) (Edo-period)
joruri narrator; manzai narrator
female role actor in kabuki
low ranking priest in a Shinto shrine
lord steward (formerly the fifth court rank)
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人別帳 - にんべつちょう
Added 11 years agonoun (common) (futsuumeishi)
family registry (of the district) (Edo period); population registry; records of an Edo period census
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壇家 - だんか
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family which supports a temple; parishioner
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