How did you like ...?; How about ...?; What's going on?; How's it going?
following one's master into death by committing ritual suicide (seppuku)
wasteland; wilderness; abandoned land; devastated land
steady; honest; sober; straightforward
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)
neglecting; leaving alone
to grow up; to become an adult
at every opportunity; for each and every thing that crops up; with every little thing; whenever possible; whenever the chance arises; at every turn
to raise (to maturity); to bring up; to rear; to train; to educate
to say something better left unsaid; to go too far (by saying something rude)
child rearing; child raising; raising children; parenting
to each his own; people differ; different people (have different likes)
discomfort; inconvenience; poverty; want; inability; disability
allowance; remittance; sending (someone) an allowance
salary; pay; medical care; treatment; advance preparation
you'll have to pay for it; the bill will come due; there's no escaping
delicate technique (in sumo, judo, etc.); little trick; subtle maneuver
earning extra money (e.g. from a side job)
a drop in the bucket; a drop in the ocean; (lit.) (pouring) water on a hot stone
very hungry; starving; ravenous
twenty-third day of the month; twenty-three days
thoughtless; reckless; seldom; rare; ordinary; usual
patience; forbearance; endurance; forgiveness; pardon
among (other things); especially; particularly; inter alia; above all (else)
to steel oneself to; to brace oneself
to clear up; to clear away; to refresh (e.g. spirits); to be cleared (e.g. of a suspicion); to be dispelled; to be banished
longed-for; anxiously awaited
instructor; tutor (to a prince)
surface of a board or record
daimyo's alternating Edo residence; official attendance service (by a daimyo in the Edo period)
prototype; model; pattern; archetypal
to go against; to fight against; to oppose; to resist; to deny
paper folded and tucked inside the front of one's kimono (esp. for use at the tea ceremony); paper used for writing tanka
fat; tallow; lard; grease
hi!; yo!; hey man!; hey dude!
especially; above all; inter alia; among others
(arch.) I; (arch.) me; (person having) thin or shaved eyebrows; affectionate suffix for names of young men or pets
needle; pin; hook; stinger; thorn; hand (e.g. clock, etc.); pointer