year; age; years; past one's prime; old age
older brother; elder brother
two persons; two people; pair; couple
to continue; to last; to continue (without a break); to be unbroken; to occur again and again; to lead to; to connect to
to lose; to miss (a change, opportunity); to lose (a loved one); to be bereaved of; to concede (goals, points, etc.)
lonely; lonesome; solitary; desolate
care; looking after; trouble; bother; good offices; recommendation
while; even though; despite
poor; needy; lacking (quantity and quality-wise); poor; scanty
household economy; family finances
one's family; family member
(a) little; (a) few; slight; only; just; merely
feudal domain (Edo and early Meiji periods, precursor to current prefectures); fiefdom; province
samurai; warrior; military family
apprenticeship; probation; learning by observation; apprentice; trainee; probationer
live-in domestic service; live-in apprenticeship; public duty; public service
to follow another's example
comrade; friend; associate; colleague; fellow student; fellow apprentice
I've heard that ...; rumour has it that ...; it appears as if ...
there (place relatively near listener); there (place just mentioned); that place; then (of some incident just spoken of); that (of point just raised); (arch.) you
to study (in depth); to learn; to take lessons in
may; might; perhaps; may be; possibly
to become known; to come to light; to be known; to be understood; to clearly not amount to much; to be insignificant
perhaps; probably; generous; many; much
in comparison to; rather than
ten; 10; ten years of age
happiness; well-being; joy; welfare; blessedness
such; this sort of; like this
absorbed in; immersed in; forgetting oneself; daze; within a dream; while dreaming
anyhow; anyway; somehow or other; generally speaking; in any case; be that as it may
too much; excessively; too
old-fashioned; archaic; antique; antiquated
so; therefore; accordingly; like I said; I told you already
where; what place; how much (long, far); what extent
everyone; everybody; all; everything; all
to disappear (of people or animals); to go (away); to leave; to no longer exist
to leak out; to escape; to find expression; to give vent; to leak out; to be divulged
be considered; be deemed; be thought to be
explanation; exposition; description; account; caption; legend
katakana; angular Japanese syllabary used primarily for loanwords