encyclopedia; encyclopaedia
audience seating (noh theater); audience (esp. in noh)
wild ginger trefoil coat of arms of the Tokugawa clan
striker (triangular piece of steel used with flint to create sparks)
perversity; cantankerous; eccentric
sake drunk while viewing a snowy scene
study of natural laws; branch of neo-Confusianist scholarship
Sakuma Shouzan (1811-1864)
visiting one's constituency; (arch.) feudal lord's return to his estate
to relate; to narrate; to describe; to confer (a rank)
day-by-day renewal; rapid progress
to start rowing; to begin to row; to row out (e.g. to sea); to pull out; to start pedaling; to begin to pedal
perilous pass (on a route or journey); rough spot
metal fittings; metal fixtures
feudal decree; edict by a daimyo
the principle of the thing
Itagaki Taisuke (1837-1919)
conch (esp. Charonia tritonis); trumpet shell
autumn, the harvest season
coastal defense; coastal defence
Ii Naosuke (1815-1860.3.24)
large junk, with capacity for 1,000 koku of rice
bamboo stick used to strike meditators into greater wakefulness (in Zen Buddhism); striking someone's wrist with one's index and middle finger
remonstrance; remonstration; admonition; protest; reproof; expostulation
suspension bridge; viaduct; temporary bridge; mediation; go-between
to behave well; to mind one's manners
the same as something was reputed to be
barony of the first degree; influential feudal clan