important; momentous; essential; principal; major
every place; various places
felling timber; cutting down trees; logging; lumbering
mobilization; mobilisation
noisy; boisterous; turbulent (era, etc.); troubled
shipyard; dock yard; shipbuilding yard
to open; to undo; to bloom; to unfold; to open (for business, e.g. in the morning); to be wide (gap, etc.); to widen
work; operation; manufacturing; fatigue duty
supervision; control; superintendence; director; superintendent; supervisor
injustice; unfairness; wrongdoing; iniquity; impropriety; irregularity
participation; taking part in; participating in; being concerned in
harmful effect; harmful influence; evil practice; abuse; malady
to measure; to weigh; to survey; to conjecture; to infer; to surmise
present (e.g. government, administration); current; existing
estimate (of costs); budget
to need; to demand; to take; to require
same; similar; (just) like; equal
in use; occupied (e.g. toilet); engaged
counter for ships (large boats); counter for half of a pair (e.g. half of a folding screen); counter for fish, birds, arrows, etc.
cancellation; liquidation; resolution; reduction (e.g. of stress)
to take out a boat; to put out a boat
to chase; to run after; to follow (a set order, a trend, etc.); to drive out; to get rid of; to drive (e.g. a herd)
foundation; root; basis; root and trunk
to build up; to establish; to form; to become (a state); to accomplish; to achieve; to change into
tributary system (of Imperial China)
at any cost; at any price; at any expense
Edo shogunate (1603-1867)
number of persons; personnel
tightness (of money, financial conditions, etc.); pressure; stringency; being strained (of a situation); being tense; being pressing
situation; (present) state of affairs; circumstances
groping (for); fumbling around (for); searching (for an answer, solution, etc.); trying to find
purple; violet; Lithospermum erythrorhizon (species of gromwell); type of soy sauce
ban (e.g. on smoking); prohibition
extraordinary; special; exceptional; non-standard grammatical construction; ungrammatical usage; solecism
treatment; reception; service; working conditions; salary; pay
to also be (implies that as well as the earlier stated this is also the case); to be ... or something
feudal domain (Edo and early Meiji periods, precursor to current prefectures); fiefdom; province
no more than; just; only; mere; goes no further than
largest ever; biggest; record