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gunpowder magazine; magazine; explosives warehouse; (fig.) powder keg

1

to be overturned; to be reversed; to turn over; to fall down; to tumble down; to topple over

1

diplomatic issue

1

origin; source; basis; base; cause; (raw) material; ingredient

1

reward

1

(acting as an) intermediate; mediation; employment office (Edo period)

1

bribe; sweetener; douceur

1

discovery (of a plot, misdeed, etc.); detection; exposure; disclosure

1

treachery

1

next; secondly; subsequently

1

seppuku; harakiri; ritual suicide by disembowelment; seppuku as a death penalty (where the convict is decapitated by a second as they make the motions to disembowel themself; Edo period)

1

private or secret orders

1

Murayama

1

cheap; rash; thoughtless; careless

1

Yahee

5

trouble; quarrel; difficulties; complication; tangle

1

to get complicated; to grow worse; to turn sour

1

use of (military) force

1

Nuyts

6

high-handed; oppressive

1

to take by surprise

1

shackles; fetters; irons; bonds (e.g. family); ties; binding relationship

1

send specially; special envoy

1

to return (to the original state); to revert (to); to restore (to); to take revenge on

1

humour; humor; safety; health; in a good mood; in high spirits

1

Keelung (province and city in Taiwan); Chilung; Jilong

1

idea; plan; draft; rough copy; expectation; (arch.) desk

1

to breathe out; to breathe; to tell (a lie); to use (foul language); to vomit; to throw up

1

yacht (esp. a sailing boat with one mast); sailing boat; sailboat

1

fictitious; imaginary; fanciful; aerial; overhead

1

somewhere; in some respects; in some way

1

to be blown off; to be blown away; to disappear; to vanish; to rush; to hurry

1

Japantown (esp. historical Japantowns in Southeast Asia founded in the 16th-17th centuries)

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Japantown (esp. historical Japantowns in Southeast Asia founded in the 16th-17th centuries)

8

Ayutthaya

2

southern suburbs

1

head; chief; boss

3

Kyūemon

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Yamada Nagamasa

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Numazu

1

Ookubo Tadasuke

1

four administrative positions (of the ritsuryō system: kami, suke, jou, sakan)

1

first class; first rank; one degree; one level; most; best

1

government; government service; the bureaucracy; government post; government official

1

promotion; advancement; rising in rank

1

Phnom Penh (Cambodia)

2

udon; thick Japanese wheat noodles

2

to adjoin each other; to be beside one another

1

secretary (government)

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to save; to rescue; to help; to assist; to support (financially); to contribute (to)

1