Tokugawa shogunate (i.e. the Edo shogunate, 1603-1867)
device; contrivance; trick; trap; (small) scale; half finished; commencement
to shut in; to confine; to contain
to detach; to decapitate; to cut loose; to let loose; to dismember
history of Japan; Japanese history
often; again and again; frequently; repeatedly
pattern; behavioural pattern; behavioral pattern; predictability
(ancient) Japan; Yamato (former province located in present-day Nara Prefecture)
Izumo (former province located in the east of present-day Shimane Prefecture)
viewing and treating as one; regarding as the same; equating one thing with another; identification
paying no heed to; not caring about; taking no notice of
(if) by some chance; by some possibility; in the unlikely event that; (unlikely event of) emergency; the worst(-case scenario)
backing (for a position); giving support to; helping (someone) to a position
one's common name; one's popular name; alias; house name
illegitimate child; secret love child
descendant; posterity; offspring
unreality; becoming disconnected from reality
ancestor; forefather; foremother
to put one's life on the line; to risk one's life; to put everything one has into it
to dispel; to clear away; to accomplish a goal; (arch.) to make it sunny; (arch.) to make clouds disappear
deadly serious; deadly earnest
unnatural; artificial; affected; strained
biggest; greatest; largest; maximum
turning point; tipping point; commutation point
Satchō Alliance; 1866 alliance between the feudal domains of Satsuma and Chōshū
Emperor Koumei; Koumei Tenno (1831-1866 CE, reigning: 1846-1866 CE)
death (of an emperor); demise
very; greatly; much; just about to; almost; very nearly
shogunate marital union with the Imperial Family
overthrow of the shogunate
transfiguration; transformation; change of appearance
death from disease; death from illness
being full; (counting) completed years (e.g. when calculating age); full (years, months, etc.); Manchuria
Satsuma and Chōshū (clan alliance)