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sound of a gun; roar of cannon

2

in these times; in times like these; the season being what it is

1

to forbid; to suppress

1

notification; official notice; directive (e.g. from higher to lower levels of the administration); being well versed (in); being proficient (in)

1

Boshin War (Japanese civil war between Imperial and shogunate forces; 1868-1869)

1

battle; fight; war; struggle; conflict

1

prohibition; ban; embargo

2

Matsura Seizan

1

essays; miscellaneous writings; literary jottings

3

child (esp. a boy); viscount; founder of a school of thought (esp. Confucius); master; masters and philosophers (categorization of Chinese classical literature); (arch.) you; -er (i.e. man who spends all his time doing...)

1

night chat; tale told at night; evening tea party (starting around 6pm); book of informal essays

1

ranked list (entertainers, sumo wrestlers, millionaires, etc.); program (e.g. theatre)

1

embossing a pattern; repoussé; drum signaling the end of a performance; serve (e.g. in tennis); drive (in golf); printout

2

toy fireworks; sparklers

1

plan; device; idea; design; contrivance; conception

3

horizontal (as opposed to vertical); lying down; side-to-side (as opposed to front-to-back); width; side (of a box, etc.); beside

5

to run a shop; to have a shop

1

Nara prefecture (Kinki area)

9

person's origin (e.g. city, country, parentage, school)

1

pyrotechnician; pyrotechnist

4

Yahee

2

locksmith

4

gunpowder; powder

3

pipe; tube

1

to put on the market; to put out for sale; to put on sale; to become popular

1

on board a ship; aboard a ship

3

Moronobu

1

nishiki-e; multi-colour woodblock print

1

sightseer; tourist

1

to improve upon; to make improvements to; to refine

1

employee; servant

1

independence; self-reliance; independence (e.g. of a nation); freedom; separation; isolation

2

jeweler; (arch.) soap bubble vendor

4

townscape; street (of stores and houses); (look of) stores and houses on street

1

Nikko Tosho-gu

1

exile; banishment; eviction; elimination (e.g. of poverty); removal

1

generation; lifetime; age

1

famine; crop failure; chronic shortage (e.g. of water)

1

thunderous roar; roaring sound

1

high in the sky

1

flash (of light); glint; schiller

1

to fire (gun, arrow, questions, etc.); to shoot; to set free; to release; to emit (e.g. light); to give off (e.g. a scent)

1

excursion; outing; picnic

1

drowned person

2

Buddhist services in memory of those drowned in a river; offering to suffering spirits at the river

3

intention; aim; design

2

mouth of river; estuary

1

excavation; cutting; digging

1

Kawamura

1

great achievement; great feat; great work; great undertaking

1