chief financial official (Edo period); commissioner of finance; chief treasurer; chief accountant in a daimyo's service (Muromachi period)
person who holds the purse strings; person who minds the cash; safe keeper; treasurer
important post; important office; key position
successive jobs; consecutive jobs
influential person; powerful person; big wheel; big gun; power behind the throne
Ansei era (1854.11.27-1860.3.18)
The Treaty of Amity and Commerce (July 29, 1858); Japan-US Friendship and Trade Treaty
revision (of a rule, price, etc.); alteration; change
negotiations; discussions; connection
to carry on one's shoulder; to shoulder; to bear; to bear (burden, responsibility, etc.); to take upon oneself
going to the United States
(sea) voyage; navigation; sailing; passage; cruise
major powers of the world; great powers
outside the country; abroad
discharge; outward flow; efflux; leak of (private) information or pictures
sense of impending crisis; sense of danger
secret; private; surreptitious
magistrate; shogunate administrator
job; work; duties; trade; skill
Kōzuke (former province located in present-day Gunma Prefecture)
country; state; region; national government; central government; home (i.e. hometown, home country); (arch.) province (of Japan)
district; county; district (of 2-20 50-home neighbourhoods or townships, in the ritsuryo period)
a reclusive life; living secluded from the world; leading a sequestered life
government forces; loyalist army
arrest; apprehension; capture
taking something out; carrying out; providing money oneself; paying with one's own money; corbel; strengthening under a seam (clothing)
cache; place to hide something
in the mountains; among the mountains
various opinions; various theories; various rumors (rumours)
tradition; legend; folklore
guess; speculation; supposition
region; limits; stage; level
to prove successful; to take hold; to amount to something
information; news; report; reward; retribution
workers' credit union; labour credit association
to receive; to get; to accept; to take; to interpret; to understand