circumstances; condition; to arrange; to manage; to lend money; to raise money
correspondence; news; letter; tidings
suspension; interruption; stoppage; tie-up; cessation
promise; agreement; convention; rule; destiny; fate
adopted daughter; foster daughter
to send; to dispatch; to despatch; to bestow (favour, etc.); to grant (e.g. pardon)
to pass; to elapse; to pass through; to go through; to experience; to go through
wind; breeze; manner; behaviour; cold; influenza
a family; a household; (one's own) style; school; gang; (yakuza) family
vicissitudes; continual change; transmigration; metempsychosis
similarly; same (idea); same (name)
left skirt of a kimono; geisha (because they often walked holding the left hem of their kimono)
forty-ninth day after a person's death
even though; despite; when
end; final; end of life; death; never; not at all
visit; call; arrival (e.g. of spring); advent; news; tidings
at that time; in those days; at that moment; then
beloved concubine; favourite concubine (e.g. of the shogun)
janitor; caretaker; custodian; (slighting reference to a) handyman
pocket money; spending money; pin money; allowance
jaw; chin; barb (of a fishhook)
asafetida (Ferula assafoetida)
thought; imagination; mind; desire; wish; love
contrivance; managing (to raise money); one's financial condition
finally; barely; only just; gradually
funeral; burial; condolence
elementary school; primary school; school for children over eight years old in ancient China; traditional Chinese philology
low-ranking soldier; graduation; moving on (from); outgrowing (something); low-ranking samurai (1870-1872); death (of a noble, etc.)
junior high school; middle school; lower secondary school
senior high school; high school
(hard-earned rewards of) sweat and blood
noble; lofty; high-minded; virtuous; upright
to wring (towel, rag); to squeeze; to squeeze (fruit to extract juice); to press; to rack (one's brains); to strain (one's voice); to extort
is something that; is that which
goes without saying; needless to say; obvious
pluralizing suffix (esp. for people and animals; formerly honorific)
to be sad; to mourn for; to regret
family; clan; sect; school; group of related sumo stables
to bring; to take (something) along; to fetch; to get
abacus; soroban; calculation (esp. of profit and loss); reckoning
artificial hairpin with ornamental flowers; chamomile sunray (Rhodanthe anthemoides)
(social) position; status