right (to do something); authority; power
the masses; the lower classes; the common people
discontent; dissatisfaction; complaint; grievance
resentment; grudge; malice; matter for regret; regret
to raise; to bring to (someone's attention); to appeal to (reason, emotions, etc.); to work on (one's emotions); to complain; to sue (a person)
to cling to; to hang onto; to rely on; to depend on; to implore; to entreat
natural calamity; disaster
famine; crop failure; chronic shortage (e.g. of water)
statesman; administrator; politician; policymaker
admonition; warning; caution
people; men and women; each person; everybody
cunning and wickedness; cunning and wicked person
to entrust (e.g. a task) to another; to leave to; to passively leave to someone else's facilities; to leave to take its natural course; to continue (something) in a natural fashion (without particular aim); to rely fully on one's (full strength, great ability, long time taken) to get something done
to be worried; to be troubled
informing with respect; announcing respectfully
to collect (debts); to dun; to appoint; to promote; to emphasize; to focus on
to take measures; to work out a plan; to lecture; to read aloud; to confer
mawashi; belt; mantle; cape; gang rape
(United States of) America; USA
care; looking after; trouble; bother; good offices; recommendation
shō; traditional unit of volume, approx. 1.8 litres
1 "to" (unit of volume, approx. 18 litres)
three large cities (esp. Edo, Kyoto, and Osaka during the Edo period)
wealthy person; millionaire
interest (on a loan, deposit, etc.)
unprecedented; unheard-of; record-breaking
riches; wealth; resources; lottery
chōnin (Edo-period social class of town-dwelling commoners, esp. landowning merchants); townspeople; townsfolk; tradespeople
with one's own body; by one's own action; through one's own experience; firsthand
manager; steward; factotum; useful person
status; position; method; way; rule; regulation
to fit into (a box, frame, category, etc.); to be contained within; to settle down (into); to be installed (in one's rightful place); to settle into (one's position); to take up (a post); to be delivered
large number; innumerable; great many; immense; vast; abundant
new rice field; newly developed rice field; wasteland or marshland newly reclaimed as a rice field (Edo period)
retainer; retinue; servant
bribe; sweetener; douceur
high-class Edo-period pleasure house (where outside prostitutes were hired to entertained guests)
to be urgent; to be pressing; to be imminent
the whole world; the whole country; society; the public; supremacy over a nation; government of a country; having one's own way