spinning mill; filature; thread-manufacturing plant; silk mill
prefectural government; prefectural administration
good-quality; superior in quality
bamboo dealer; person selling bamboo or articles made of bamboo; house made of bamboo
to lie down; to retire; to go to bed (with an illness)
to be adopted; to enter a family as an adopted child
to make worse (e.g. disease); to aggravate; to complicate
settlement (financial); squaring accounts; liquidation; ending (a relationship); breaking up (with)
to lay the foundation (for)
to beat down prices; to strike a hard bargain
doomed (business, trade, etc.); in a bad state; poor
sericulture; silkworm culture; silkworm raising
wakizashi; short sword worn by samurai
first (of its kind) in Japan
natural drugs; natural remedy; herbal medicine; crude drugs; galenical
that's right; yes; uh-huh
he; she; samurai's attendant (in a var. of origami); type of popular song accompanied by dance from the Edo period
going to the United States
(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
Western-style; foreign; Western-style toilet; flush toilet; water closet
to deal a blow in return; to hit back; to punch back; to reject; to send back
if (it) doesn't exist; if there is no ...; if not ...; unless ...; have to ...; must ...
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
express messenger; postman; mailman; courier
irrigation channel; irrigation ditch; irrigation canal; flume
party-internal; within the party
rice plant (Oryza sativa)
central pillar (of a building); mainstay (e.g. of an economy); backbone (e.g. of a family); provider
aspiration; ambition; plan; hopes; wishes
to come; to go; to participate; to perform Zen meditation
to work assiduously; to give one's all; to make the utmost effort; (lit.) to make (grind) one's body into dust
production output; number of goods manufactured
to profit; to benefit from; to take advantage of; to make good use of
settlement; payment of account