Tsuda Umeko (1864.12.31-1929.8.16)
percentage of school attendance
rail transport (transportation, transit); transport by rail
spinning mill; filature; thread-manufacturing plant; silk mill
Gentoku era (1329.8.29-1331.8.9)
right under; directly below
spinning; silk reeling; filature
the three realms of existence; the whole universe (of a billion worlds) that Buddha enlightened; past, present and future existences; far-off ...; distant ...
Emperor Meiji (1852-1912, reigned 1867-1912); Emperor Mutsuhito
weeping for joy; crying with happiness
modern state; modern nation
settlement (financial); squaring accounts; liquidation; ending (a relationship); breaking up (with)
I; me; oneself; (arch.) you
to provide with funds; to fund; to advance some capital; to furnish with funds
unhulled rice; rice in the husk; paddy; rice husks; chaff
citizen of a prefecture; prefectural citizen
civilization and enlightenment; Japan's Westernization movement during the Meiji era (Westernisation)
prime minister (as the head of a cabinet government); premier
sericulture; silkworm culture; silkworm raising
(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
to be lost (e.g. luggage); to be missing; to be used up; to be run out; to disappear (e.g. pain); to be lost (e.g. a dream, confidence)
beginning; start; first (in line, etc.); origin; such as ...; not to mention ...
to bear fruit; to produce a crop
the whole town; all over the town; throughout the town
small private school (esp. for cramming); private school (in the Edo period, orig. run by Confucianists)
Yamaguchi prefecture (Chūgoku area)
don't be absurd; that's out of the question; nonsense; don't mention it
abacus; soroban; calculation (esp. of profit and loss); reckoning