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one's home country; one's homeland

6

to cross the ocean (i.e. to go to or come from overseas)

3

early summer; fourth month of the lunar calendar

1

trip by boat; sea trip; voyage; cruise

4

queen; female monarch; queen consort; consort of a king; queen; princess

6

Zenobia

13

semi-; quasi-; associate

1

national isolation; closing the country (to foreigners); sakoku; policy of national isolation enacted by the Tokugawa shogunate

1

raw cotton; cotton wool

1

olive oil

1

agricultural produce

1

raw silk thread

1

export; exportation; efferent

2

landing; going ashore; disembarkation; making landfall (of a typhoon); striking land; hitting land

1

giving and taking; exchange (of letters); arguing back and forth; (conversational) exchange

2

(national) capital (city); metropolis

1

chalk (rock); white wall

14

(urban) prefecture (i.e. Osaka and Kyoto); centre (e.g. of learning); center; (government) office; fu (administrative unit in China, Korea and Vietnam)

10

Dejima; artificial island in Nagasaki used as a Portuguese and Dutch trading post between 1634 and 1854

6

labor; labour; work; Labour Party

1

vulgar person; low-life; sleazebag; (arch.) lowly person; (arch.) person of humble rank; (arch.) peasant

4

(on the) sea; surface of the sea

1

palace; tonic (of the Japanese and Chinese pentatonic scale); ancient Chinese punishment (castration for men, or confinement for women); zodiacal sign

14

(bearing a) close resemblance; vivid reminder (e.g. of the past); dim; faint; vague

2

onion (Allium cepa)

1

dome

1

pure gold; solid gold; fine gold

1

in the style of (esp. literary, artistic, etc. works); reminiscent of; attached or stretched on

1

luxury; extravagance; to live in luxury; to indulge oneself; lavish (use of something); abundant

1

capital (city)

2

above; more than

1

shipyard; dock yard; shipbuilding yard

1

joint establishment (esp. schools of different levels or different courses of study); establishment as an annex (e.g. of a school); juxtaposition; placing side by side

1

harbour; harbor

1

trading vessel

2

coming alongside a pier, quay, etc.; reaching land (of a boat)

1

riverbank; riverside; market on the riverbank (esp. fish market); place (for activities); venue

1

transport; transportation; transit; conveyance

2

flight (e.g. airline flight); trip (e.g. train trip); mail; post; opportunity; chance

1

waterway; canal; channel; swimming pool lane

1

mesh (of a net)

1

injury; harm; evil influence; damage

1

quartz; glass

1

scenery; scene; landscape

1

to go down and stand; to alight; to get down

1

to wait impatiently for

1

lifestyle; way of life

5

usual; normal; everyday; usually; normally; generally

2

various articles; various items; various kinds

1

normal; usual; ordinary; everyday

1