黒船

くろふねkurofune

noun

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

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Data from JMdict, KANJIDIC2 (EDRDG), KanjiVG, CC-CEDICT and Make Me a Hanzi. Sources and licences