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reeling by hand (esp. silk); hand filature; counter sinking (making conical depression so screw-heads don't protrude above surface); spot facing (machining a flat space for bolt head, etc.); hollowing out (e.g. wooden chair seat, scallop pattern on roof, etc.)

1

direct export

2

various allowances; (other) benefits

1

percentage of school attendance

1

Saigou Tsugumichi (1843.6.1-1902.7.18)

1

thin strips of raw fish and squid

4

Kumejirou

1

Tomioka

3

silk industry

2

school; school building; schoolhouse

1

Shoukasonjuku

5

private management

1

Ministry of Agriculture and Commerce (Meiji-Taisho)

1

end; tip; end (of the year, month, etc.); close; youngest child; descendants; offspring

3

government management

1

junior college; vocationally oriented two or three year post-secondary education institution

1

magnificent; grand; majestic; splendid

1

bamboo ladle

1

commercial affairs

1

spinning; silk reeling; filature

14

steering; helmsman; coxswain; guidance; leadership; leader

1

night school; evening school; evening class; night study

1

opportunity; occasion; (arch.) order; (arch.) sequence; (arch.) successor

1

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

3

I; me; oneself; (arch.) you

3

two wheels

1

extraordinary; uncommon

1

to recover a cost; to recover an expense; to get a return on one's investment; to get one's money's worth

1

prefectural ordinance

15

to make a sale of government property

2

frozen dessert

1

female factory worker

5

participation; taking part; consultant; councillor; adviser

1

citizen of a prefecture; prefectural citizen

1

raw silk thread

8

sericulture; silkworm culture; silkworm raising

1

undertaking; underwriting; acceptance

1

to hear a rumor; to get wind of

1

monme (unit of weight, 3.75 g); monme; Edo period silver coin worth between 1/50th-1/80th of a ryō

1

(a) stop (e.g. in a timber joint, or at the end of a kanji stroke); remaining (e.g. poste-restante); forty-five degree angle

1

opinion in writing; written opinion; argument

1

to leave home; to leave one's parental roof; to leave the nest; to go out on one's own

1

Morioka (city in Iwate)

1

thief; robber

1

operation (of a machine, factory, fishing boat, etc.); work

1

monthly tuition fee

1

firm adherence to one's principles; chastity (of a woman)

2

a little bit; a little while

1

to overwork

1

prefectural office

1