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Ryouichirō

4

direct export

1

cut; notch; raid; attack

1

Oshikouji

1

silk industry

1

(encouragement of) industry

5

sericulture industry

1

spinning mill; filature; thread-manufacturing plant; silk mill

1

Choutarou

3

Ookubo

1

prefectural government; prefectural administration

1

government management

2

crossing the meridian

1

Tose

1

ambassador to Japan

1

feathers; plumage; down

1

good-quality; superior in quality

1

bamboo dealer; person selling bamboo or articles made of bamboo; house made of bamboo

1

to lie down; to retire; to go to bed (with an illness)

1

spinning; silk reeling; filature

6

to be adopted; to enter a family as an adopted child

1

to make worse (e.g. disease); to aggravate; to complicate

1

settlement (financial); squaring accounts; liquidation; ending (a relationship); breaking up (with)

1

to lay the foundation (for)

1

I; me; oneself; (arch.) you

3

prefectural ordinance

15

to beat down prices; to strike a hard bargain

1

highwayman; bandit; brigand; highway robbery; holdup; mugging

2

gift brought to a funeral (usu. money); funeral offering; condolence gift; (lit.) incense money

3

doomed (business, trade, etc.); in a bad state; poor

1

raw silk thread

12

sericulture; silkworm culture; silkworm raising

1

wakizashi; short sword worn by samurai

1

first (of its kind) in Japan

1

natural drugs; natural remedy; herbal medicine; crude drugs; galenical

1

that's right; yes; uh-huh

1

prefectural office

5

he; she; samurai's attendant (in a var. of origami); type of popular song accompanied by dance from the Edo period

1

going to the United States

1

(arch.) peoples formerly of northern Japan with distinct language and culture (i.e. the Ainu); provincial (i.e. a person who lives far from the city); brutish, unsophisticated warrior (esp. used by Kyoto samurai to refer to samurai from eastern Japan); foreigner; barbarian

1

general affairs

1

Western-style; foreign; Western-style toilet; flush toilet; water closet

1

house to house; door to door

2

to deal a blow in return; to hit back; to punch back; to reject; to send back

1

market (for goods, services, etc.); outlet (for selling); opening

2

to love one another

1

if (it) doesn't exist; if there is no ...; if not ...; unless ...; have to ...; must ...

1

hoe

1

founder

1

black ships; Western ships that came to Japan between the 16th and 19th centuries, esp. those of the Perry Expedition in 1853; foreign disruptor (of the Japanese market); product, person, etc. arriving from the West and disturbing the Japanese market

1