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Miyako

1

prefectural assembly (in Kyoto or Osaka)

5

Tomi

1

popular election

1

intractable (diseases); hard to cure; rebellious; insurgent; refractory

1

state prohibition

1

prefectural resident (of Osaka or Kyoto)

2

Doshisha University

1

private secretary; amanuensis

1

local assembly

1

bid; tender

1

Movement for Civic Rights and Freedom (Meiji era); Freedom and People's Rights Movement

1

royal capital; imperial capital

1

perilous pass (on a route or journey); rough spot

1

Itagaki Taisuke (1837-1919)

1

leaving school; expulsion (from school)

1

ambitious (heroic) undertaking; daring enterprise; grand scheme

1

prefectures (of Japan, excl. Tokyo and Hokkaido)

2

private school; non-government school

1

algebra; number of generations (e.g. in imperial succession)

1

to divide (by); to remove; to exclude

2

school paper

1

taxpayer

1

American person

1

first child

1

to exert oneself

1

Christ

2

to look up to (a person) as one's preceptor

1

number of votes polled; poll votes

2

permanence; immortality

1

electoral district; precinct

1

evangelist

2

opening a school

2

first (of its kind) in Japan

1

draft budget

1

truancy; absence without leave

1

missionary work; proselytizing; preaching; evangelism

1

literary talent

1

Ministry of Education, Science and Culture (1871-2001)

1

smuggling (people); stowing away

1

internal or domestic affairs

1

Kyoto Prefecture

5

(eligible) voter; elector; holder of a right; rightsholder; bigwig; person with political clout

1

staged event; faked situation; prearranged performance

1

to throw one's weight around; to exercise one's authority; to make one's presence felt

1

to be seized with fear; to be intimidated; to lose one's nerve; to be frightened; to get cold feet; to chicken out

1

Hakodate (city in Hokkaido)

4

peak; summit; ridge; back of a blade

7

Japanese chimera; mythical creature with a monkey's head, tanuki's body, tiger's limbs, and a snake tail; White's thrush (Zoothera dauma); mysterious person; person of unknown character

1

to perceive; to understand

1