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Historical term

person who bought and resold surplus gifts given to daimyo or samurai (Edo period)

Historical term

erotic tea house (employing prostitutes)

Historical term

Edo-period seller of foreign goods

Historical term

corner house (Edo period)

Historical term

daimyo's mansion

Historical term

ezōshi shop; Edo-period shop selling picture books, wood prints, etc.

Historical term

maritime merchant (Edo and Meiji periods); shipping agency

Historical term

(Edo-period) restaurant

Historical term

female prostitute working at a bathhouse (Edo period)

Historical term

room used by political officials (Edo period)

Historical term

female servants' bedroom

Colloquial; Rare term

notary public; scribe; amanuensis

Dated term

sukiyaki restaurant

Dated term

shop; store; merchant; shopkeeper

Obsolete term

prostitute

Rare term

dilapidated house; tumbledown house; hovel; miserable shack

Sensitive; Rare term

tenement house with no windows

Obsolete term

menko; children's game in which thick circular or rectangular cards are slapped down on the ground to overturn other cards

Rare term

person who lives an extravagant lifestyle

Rare term

lean-to

Rare term

small playhouse

Rare term

intrusive person; being intrusive; a tinker's shoulder pole

Rare term

pawnshop

Rare term

Glehnia littoralis (species of umbellifer used in Chinese medicine)