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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

Sakurada Gate; Sakuradamon; southern gate of the Tokyo Imperial Palace; Tokyo Metropolitan Police Department

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

1

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

1

ditch; drain; groove; tread; gap (between people, countries, etc.); gulf

5

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

(group of) foreigners; foreign contingent; foreign participants; foreign competitors; foreign players; foreign teams

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

Aizu

1

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 (especially during the late Edo period movement to overthrow the shogunate)

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

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

5

Tokugawa shogunate (1603-1867); Edo shogunate

1

being under the rule of; being under the government of

1

warfare; the maelstrom of war; disorder brought about by war

1

Hamaguri Rebellion (1864); Kinmon incident

1

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

4

ruin; destruction; devastation; waste; decay

2

to carry to extremes; to go to the end of something; to reach the peak of something (e.g. luxury, hardships, etc); to be extremely (e.g. busy); to exhaust completely; to have nothing left (e.g. to say)

3

leaping flames; flying sparks; spread of fire (due to leaping flames); repercussions in unanticipated areas; spilling over; impetigo contagiosa

1

to pass; to pass by

7

belief; faith; conviction

9

one's heart; one's mind; one's intentions

2