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congratulation; celebration

1

American person

4

external pressure; outside pressure; foreign pressure

1

expansion; extension; elongation; stretching

2

turning point; transition phase

1

imprisonment; incarceration

1

member of shogun's council of elders

1

Ii Naosuke (1815-1860.3.24)

1

Ansei Purge (1858-1860)

1

cherry tree; cherry blossom; fake buyer; paid audience; hired applauder; horse meat

5

rice field

1

outside a gate; beyond one's area of expertise

1

assassination

1

weakening

1

to abolish; to abandon; to repeal; to dethrone; to depose

1

national polity; National Athletic Meet

1

to establish; to formulate

2

rejection; expulsion; boycott; ostracism

5

revere the Emperor; expel the western barbarians (19th century slogan)

1

propulsion; drive; promotion (of a policy, project, movement, etc.); furtherance; advancement

1

standing for; advocating; championing; professing (to be)

1

Namamugi Incident (August 1862); Kanagawa Incident; Richardson Affair

1

origin; genesis; opening; start; beginning

3

Anglo-Satsuma War (1863); Bombardment of Kagoshima

2

radical faction or group

2

lower reaches (of a river); bottom; lower part; lower half (of the body, esp. the privates); feces (faeces); end

1

(group of) foreigners

1

retaliation; revenge; reprisal; retorsion; retortion

2

imperial princess

1

Kazunomiya (1846.7.3-1877.9.2)

2

general; shogun

2

Iemochi

1

shogunate marital union with the Imperial Family

2

plan; policy; means; fifth principle of the Eight Principles of Yong; right upward flick

7

Tsu (city in Mie); harbour; harbor; ferry

2

internal disunity; internal division; internal rift

1

to take advantage of; to follow blindly; to multiply

3

to rally; to make a comeback

1

loyalty to the emperor

1

mishmash; miscellany; medley; jumble; mixture; odds and ends

1

ronin; masterless samurai; high school graduate waiting for another chance to enter university after having failed the yearly entrance examination; person out of work; jobless person; (arch.) wanderer

5

imperial capital (esp. Kyoto); final word of an iroha poem; 10^16; 10,000,000,000,000,000

2

walking sideways; staggering; striding; being rampant; being widespread; being prevalent

5

Tokugawa shogunate (i.e. the Edo shogunate, 1603-1867)

1

being under the rule of; being under the government of

1

wars; disturbances

1

Hamaguri Rebellion (1864); Kinmon incident

1

strife; riot; (media) uproar; brouhaha; feud; tussle

4

ruin; destruction; devastation; waste; decay

2

to carry to extremes; to go to the end of something; to investigate thoroughly; to master

3