progress; advance; improvement; development
disregarding; taking no account of; ignoring; overlooking
compensation; reparations; indemnity; damages
Japan and Britain; Japanese-British; Anglo-Japanese; Japanese-English (translation, interpretation, etc.)
innumerable; countless; numberless
first of all; in the first place; to begin with; for starters
languid; weary; listless; melancholy
in itself; the thing itself; this itself; for its own sake; per se
... and eastward; east of
kiheitai (irregular militia during the Bakumatsu period)
annulment; abolition; repeal; rescission
establishment; founding; organization; organisation
force; unit; corps; squad; troops; party
class society; class-based society; hierarchical society
to come apart at the seams; to be ripped; to begin to open; to begin to bloom; to smile broadly; to break into a smile
impatient; tantalized; tantalised; irritated; chagrined; chagrinned
festival; feast; harassment by an Internet pitchfork mob; online shaming; galore (as in "goals galore"); frenzy
parade float; festival float
close-fitting trousers; long underwear
to pull; to draw; to string (lines); to run (cable); to pull towards oneself (e.g. someone's sleeve); to drag; to haul
spectator; sightseer; onlooker
creative power; creativity
embodiment; manifestation; materialization; materialisation; expression; indication
platform truck; hand truck; trolley; (railway) truck; bogie; flatcar
cause; seed; variety; kind; counter for varieties
portable shrine (carried in festivals); palanquin; buttocks; lower back
large statue of Buddha (trad. at least 4.8m high)
burial mound for severed ears