Arti Kata 御札

palace

within the town limits of Edo

wife (esp. of a prominent, recently married man)

gate for important persons

maid-in-waiting in the domestic quarters of a shogun or daimyo (Edo period)

Censorate (Later Han and Song dynasty surveillance agency)

land under the control of the imperial household or the shogunate

before a Buddha or a mortuary tablet

Oyudono no ue no nikki (Collection of diaries on the daily life in the imperial court)

annual ceremony of reciting the names of the Buddhas

playing card

sign on a post (usu. wooden and with a small roof, containing information about a sight, warning, congratulations, etc.)