jpdb beta

entrance door; front door; gateway (to a region, etc.)

1

point; tip; head (of a line); front; first; before; (the way) ahead

1

warehouse; storehouse; cellar; magazine; granary; godown

2

to throw into; to toss into

1

major dealer; wealthy merchant

1

Meiji era (1868.9.8-1912.7.30)

19

zaibatsu; financial conglomerate; industrial group

1

group (usu. of people)

1

to grapple with; to wrestle with; to engage in a bout; to tackle (e.g. a problem); to come to grips with; to work hard on

1

kingdom; monarchy

1

three generations; three periods; third generation

2

Tsunamune

1

dressing oneself; putting on clothes; embezzlement

1

strife; riot; (media) uproar; brouhaha; feud; tussle

5

to fail; to blunder; to make a mess; to drink up; to eat up

3

to make a mess; to perpetrate; to do; to finish up; to be guilty of

1

member of shogun's council of elders

1

to shut up; to imprison

1

major powers of the world; great powers

2

straying; wandering off course

1

Russia

1

of all people

1

boy; eldest son

2

second daughter

2

to profit; to get; to have (bear, beget) a child; to have a stroke of luck

2

inspector

1

tax yields; revenue

1

wealthy; rich; affluent; well-off

1

baron; Irish cobbler (variety of potato)

2

house where one was born; one's parents' house

1

black ships; Western ships that came to Japan between the 16th and 19th centuries, esp. those of the Perry Expedition in 1853; foreign disruptor (of the Japanese market); product, person, etc. arriving from the West and disturbing the Japanese market

3

arrival of ships (from abroad); arrival by ship

1

government; administration

2

Naoetsukou

1

transport; transportation

1

half a lifetime

1

the Imperial Family

1

somebody (important); person of importance

1

producing (people) in great numbers; appearing one after the other

3

ancestor; forefather; foremother

1

return; coming back

1

army

1

Kaga (former province located in the south of present-day Ishikawa Prefecture)

1

to die; to draw one's last breath; to breathe one's last

2

Minister of Education

1

ruling party; government party; party in power; government

1

increase

1

sugar

1

cotton

1

rapeseed; coleseed

1