success in life; getting ahead; successful career; promotion; climbing the corporate ladder; eminence
daimyo (Japanese feudal lord)
peerage (in Japan; 1868-1946); nobility; aristocracy
(one's) identity; background; upbringing; (one's) character
to wash; to cleanse; to inquire into; to investigate; to purify (one's heart); to lave (e.g. shore)
how much; something over; and something; however (much); no matter how
to have (e.g. lunch); to take (e.g. vitamins)
to miss (e.g. a chance); to lose; to set free; to let go; to fail to ...
than; from; out of; except; but; more
to be late; to be delayed; to fall behind (in a race, one's studies, etc.); to lag behind; to be bereaved of; to be preceded by (someone) in death
finally; at last; in the end; after all; never (happened)
300; three hundred; 300 mon; trifling amount; shyster
disappointment; despair; despondency; broken heart; adversity
to move; to stir; to operate; to run; to make a move; to take action; to be touched
anciently; formerly; old times; a long time ago
to make merry; to be festive
foreign country; foreign land; strange land; far-off land
drama; play; powerful drug
every place; various places
vagrancy; vagabondage; wander around
land route; overland route; by land; overland
neck; head; dismissal; discharge
settlement; permanent residency
those (near the second person)
surface; face (i.e. the visible side of an object); front (of a building, etc.); obverse side (i.e. "head") of a coin; outside; exterior; appearance
trade; business; commerce; occupation; calling; profession
sometime; someday; one day; some time or other; the other day; in due course
(ancient) Japan; Yamato (former province located in present-day Nara Prefecture)
project; enterprise; business; (arch.) act; (arch.) deed; (arch.) conduct
gods and men; godlike person; person as powerful as a god; (arch.) low-ranking Shinto priest
pluralizing suffix (esp. for people and animals; formerly honorific)
oneself; oneself; for oneself; personally
flight from one's country; seeking asylum; defection; emigration (for political reasons); (going into) exile; becoming a (political) refugee
mountain forest; forest on a mountain; montane forest; mountains and forest
to take refuge in; to succeed in running away
gradually; slowly; little by little; incrementally
after all is said and done; no matter what people say; in the end; definitely; undeniably