to make it worth somebody's while; to make something worthwhile
Alpine leek (Allium victorialis var. platyphyllum)
beluga (Delphinapterus leucas); white whale; beluga whale
soft windflower; Anemone Flaccida
elm bark clothes traditionally worn by the Ainu; elm bark textile
new; newly made; newly-built ship; new boat; unmarried woman of about 20; newly-married woman
female prisoner; female convict
multiracial nation; multiethnic country
good; wonderful; splendid; understood; got it; OK
evading blame for a transgression by pinning it on a subordinate and abandoning them; (lit.) a skink lizard's shedding of its tail
the world and the nation; the state of the world; high affairs of state
First Sino-Japanese war (1894-1895)
fishing grounds; permitted fishing zone
senility; dotage; decrepitude
to perceive; to understand
doddering; tottering; unsteady; shaky; decrepit; infirm
Shinsengumi; Edo period police and military force dedicated to suppressing anti-shogunate activities
to hinder; to obstruct; to disrupt; to interfere with; to cause a delay
to be ready; to be prepared; to be in order; to be put in order; to be adjusted; to be regulated
to capture; to seize; to plunder
to die by drowning; to drown
modernization; modernisation
to hit and break open; to crush; to smash
to have an uneasy conscience
to buy more (of something)
dirty work; unpleasant task
major powers of the world; great powers
Bakumatsu period; closing days of the Tokugawa shogunate; end of the Edo period
very hungry; starving; ravenous
to apologize; to apologise
to peel off and fall; to flake away
tattoo (esp. a traditional Japanese one); tattooing
one's last moments; (on) the point of death; (on) one's deathbed
to be traced (of a criminal); to be tracked; (arch.) to have a (male) lover