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Einoshin

1

Yamaguchidaijinguu

1

rotation of crops

1

Touda

1

work song

1

Kikkawa Tsunemasa (1829.9.30-1867.4.24)

1

fulcrum peg (fitted into the cavity in an oar as part of a traditional oarlock)

1

wearing a maternity belt

1

Tsuda College

1

kimono material

1

sauteed vegetables with fish or poultry made into a stew; poultry or fish stew with chili peppers and Welsh onions mixed in

2

pebrine (disease of silkworms)

1

man'yōgana written in kaisho or gyōsho style

2

Sase

1

Issei

1

mountain in the winter; (lit.) sleeping mountain

2

Chuubee

2

Kumeji

2

how; why

1

Katsunoshin

1

colonnade; row of columns

1

Mochitsugu

2

Unpin

3

Houfutenmanguu

2

Kuruhara Ryouzou (1829.12.27-1862.9.22)

2

Matsuura Kametarou (1837-1862.4.13)

3

Nagasaki Naval Training Center (est. 1855 at the entrance to Dejima)

1

sea basses; groupers

1

Takeichi Hanpeita

1

Suetomo

1

vice-consul

1

Asada Jirou (1951.12-)

1

Ryouichirō

4

Yamada Akiyoshi (1844.11.18-1892.11.11)

1

rock, paper, scissors

2

small face (of a woman; generally considered attractive)

1

parched flour, esp. barley (can be drunk in hot water with sugar)

1

Yudaonsen

2

Masanosuke

4

three great nobles of the Restoration (Okubo Toshimichi, Saigo Takamori and Kido Takayoshi); three statesmen who played an important role during the Meiji Restoration

1

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.)

2

Fire Dragon (53rd year of the sexagenary cycle, e.g. 1916, 1976, 2036)

1

Junzou

1

to be ready; to be prepared; to be in order; to be put in order; to be adjusted; to be regulated

1

to straighten; to correct; to cure; to falsify

2

cholera

1

whorl-leaf water milfoil (Myriophyllum verticillatum)

1

Shouinjinsha

3

Tokugawa Iemochi (1846.7.17-1866.8.29), Shougun 1858-1866

1

Hagimoto

1