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Seabold; Siebold ((Philipp Franz Balthasar von) Siebold, scientific explorer of Japan)

1

to come (spatially or temporally); to approach; to come back; to do ... and come back; to come to be; to become

487

first; foremost; most important; best; greatest; above all

11

call; visit

1

and then; after that

55

large; big; older; senior; final; ultimate

7

small peninsula; cape; promontory; headland

1

village

2

and; besides; because; since; the thing is; for one thing

149

martial arts demonstration; martial arts training

1

house; hall; building

4

Zoushi

1

medical science; medicine

1

house of parliament (congress, diet, etc.); graduate school; postgraduate school; institution (often medical); institutional building; sub-temple; minor temple building

3

Ming dynasty (China, 1368-1644)

1

establishment; founding; incorporation (of a business)

1

left-hand radical of a character

1

evil; untrue; erroneous

1

Kagoshima (city, prefecture)

5

what kind of; what sort of; what; no matter what (kind of); whatever; any

18

progress; advance; improvement; development

2

oneself; oneself; for oneself; personally

6

Ryukyu; chain of southwestern Japanese islands comprising Okinawa Prefecture

5

product; produce; result; fruit

1

magazine

1

Mount Kōya (esp. Kongōbu-ji); southern mountain

1

colloquialism; colloquial language; slang

1

thought; report on one's investigation into ...; deceased father

1

cast; mold; mould; forming; shaping; fashioning

2

illustration; diagram

2

to arrive; to reach; to adhere; to insist on; to put on; to wear

1

Western learning (introduced to Japan in the late-Edo and early-Meiji eras)

4

person; -er; (arch.) expert; (arch.) geisha; (arch.) prostitute

35

(courteous) invitation; call

1

culture; civilization; civilisation; Bunka era (1804.2.11-1818.4.22)

1

new; neo-; newness; novelty; Gregorian calendar; Xin dynasty (China, 9-23 CE)

5

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)

10

hoop (of a barrel, bucket, etc.)

5

however; but

95

altogether; entirely

17

great (quantity, amount, etc.); huge; enormous; serious

1

money; metal

37

national customs and manners; provincial song or ballad; waka (classical Japanese poetry, as opposed to Chinese poetry)

1

barbarous customs

1

to hate; to dislike; to loathe

1

(licensed) red light district

1

large front gate

4

imitation; copying

1

Western-style house

1

Western goods; Western things; imported goods

2