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Yokohama (city)

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trade port

1

Kanagawa (prefecture)

1

deserted village; poor village

1

commerce; trade; business

1

conquest; domination; mastery

1

influential; prominent; strong; likely; plausible

2

prosperity; thriving; flourishing

1

to plan; to plot; to attempt (e.g. suicide, murder); to undertake (e.g. business); (arch.) to stand on tip-toes

2

reformation; revolution; renewal; Meiji Restoration

1

fulfillment; fulfilment; realization; realisation; completion

3

American Civil War (1861-1865)

2

major incident; major happening; big scandal

1

encounter; being confronted with (e.g. difficulty); meeting with (e.g. accident)

1

Lincoln

2

assassination

1

Keiō era (1865.4.7-1868.9.8)

3

first year (of an imperial era); year something (important) first happened or began

2

charge; cost; generation; age; era; a representative of; on behalf of

11

grant; grunt

3

arriving in Japan; visiting Japan

1

impressive; striking; memorable; impactful

1

government and people; those in and out of the court or government; the entire nation

1

to say; to utter; to declare; to name; to call

1

be (that) as it may; having said that

1

to go mad

1

planning; devising (a plan); drafting; drawing up

1

prefix for forming ordinal numbers

3

14; fourteen

1

earrings (for pierced ears); ear piercing; body piercing

1

15; fifteen

1

military authorities; army circles

2

anyhow; at all events; in any case; either way; anyway

1

originator; inventor

1

incredible; extraordinary; exceptional; phenomenal

1

to sow; to plant; to sow (the seeds of; e.g. conflict); to sprinkle (gold or silver powder on lacquerware)

2

the end

1

(a) grain; (a) drop; (a) bead

2

two grains; two drops; two bead

1

growth; development; growing up; growth (of a company, the economy, etc.)

2

Bunkyū era (1861.2.19-1864.2.20)

2

age; era; period; date

1

newly-opened land; recently-settled region; frontier; new residential area; new development

1

migration; immigration

1

jeon; Korean dish of meat, vegetables, etc. coated in flour and egg and fried

1

trade (foreign)

1

(head) clerk

1

spare time; free time; time (e.g. time it takes to do something); time off; day off; quitting (one's job); firing someone

1

study of the English language as a means to acquire Western knowledge (esp. after the end of Japan's period of isolation); English literature; British studies

1

professor; teaching; instruction

1