Japanese history - early modern

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    • 五公五民(ごこうごみん)
    • ごこうごみん
    Added 11 years ago

    noun (common) (futsuumeishi)

    land-tax system during the Edo period under which the government took half of the year's crop and the farmers kept the other half

    • (なな)(おおやけ)(さん)(みん)
    • しちこうさんみん
    Added 11 years ago

    noun (common) (futsuumeishi)

    land-tax rate during the Edo period, in which the government took 70 percent of the year's crop and the farmers kept 30 percent

    • 水茶屋(みずちゃや)
    • みずぢゃや
    • みずちゃや
    Added 11 years ago

    noun (common) (futsuumeishi)

    (Edo-period) roadside teahouse where one would go to relax (in comparison with a restaurant style teahouse and teahouse offering sexual services); tea stall

    • 中臈(ちゅうろう)
    • ちゅうろう
    Added 11 years ago

    noun (common) (futsuumeishi)

    court ladies of the middle rank serving in the inner palace (Heian period)

    female servant for a samurai family

    lady-in-waiting working in the inner palace of the Edo castle (Edo period)

    • 若衆(わかしゅ)
    • わかしゅ
    • わかしゅう
    Added 11 years ago

    noun (common) (futsuumeishi)

    young man (in the Edo period, esp. one with forelocks who has not yet had his coming-of-age ceremony)

    young male prostitute; young kabuki actor (who may also act as a homosexual prostitute)

    younger partner in a homosexual relationship

    • ()飯食(めしく)
    • 冷飯食(ひやめしぐ)
    • ひやめしくい
    • ひやめしぐい
    Added 11 years ago

    noun (common) (futsuumeishi)

    hanger-on; dependent

    someone who is received coldly

    third, fourth, fifth, etc. sons (during the Edo period when only the oldest male could inherit an estate)

    • (たわら)()
    • たわらぜめ
    Added 11 years ago

    noun (common) (futsuumeishi)

    Edo-period form of torture in which criminals were stuffed into straw bags with their heads exposed, piled together, and whipped (commonly used on Christians)

    • 簀巻(すま)
    • 簀巻(すまき)
    • (まき)
    • すまき
    Added 11 years ago

    noun (common) (futsuumeishi)

    wrapping something in a bamboo mat

    wrapping somebody in a bamboo mat and throwing him in a river (Edo period unofficial punishment)

    • (ろう)(とい)
    • ろうもん
    Added 11 years ago

    noun (common) (futsuumeishi)

    whipping, stone placement, and shrimp-tie bondage (three forms of Edo-period torture)

    • (よん)(おおやけ)(ろく)(みん)
    • しこうろくみん
    Added 11 years ago

    noun (common) (futsuumeishi)

    land-tax system during the Edo period under which the government took 40% of the year's crop and the farmers kept 60%

    • 高札(こうさつ)
    • こうさつ
    • たかふだ
    Added 11 years ago

    noun (common) (futsuumeishi)

    official bulletin board (Edo period)

    highest bid; highest tender

    your letter

    • 非人(ひにん)
    • ひにん
    Added 11 years ago

    noun (common) (futsuumeishi)

    one group comprising the lowest rank of Japan's Edo-period caste system (often ex-convicts or vagrants)

    • (けがれ)(おお)
    • えた
    Added 11 years ago

    noun (common) (futsuumeishi)

    one group comprising the lowest rank of Japan's Edo-period caste system (people whose work usually involved handling human bodies or animal carcasses)

    • 飯盛(めしもり)(おんな)
    • 飯盛(めしざか)(おんな)
    • めしもりおんな
    Added 11 years ago

    noun (common) (futsuumeishi)

    maid at an inn who served clients and worked as a prostitute (Edo period)

    • ()(くび)獄門(ごくもん)
    • うちくびごくもん
    Added 11 years ago

    noun (common) (futsuumeishi)

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