to have two things (at the same time) (e.g. good and bad points); to also have something (in addition to something else)
head of a family; patriarch; matriarch
supreme ruler; autocrat; dynast; high king
sharp (eyes, ears, etc.); keen; acute; sharp-witted; shrewd; clever
to hasten to join; to hurry to visit
indecisive; irresolute; shilly-shally; vacillating
stinginess; miserliness; parsimony
present (brought by a visitor); gift
immorality; injustice; adultery; illicit relationship; murdering one's teacher or a government official (one of the eight unpardonable crimes)
(act of) violence; vicious crime; murder
reciprocal relationship; mutually beneficial relations; relationship with benefits to both parties
to give up on; to turn one's back on; to abandon; to forsake; to desert; to leave
death; (an) out; death penalty (by strangulation or decapitation; most severe of the five ritsuryō punishments)
center; centre; middle; -centered; -centred; -focused
third highest division; wrestlers of the third highest division
to follow; to come after; to come next (to); to rank next (to); to rank second (to)
powerful person; influential person
adjacency; contiguity; being adjoined
to seal (letter); to prevent; to forbid; to block
after this; from now on; hereafter; thereafter; since (then); after
appointing someone to a position of trust; entrusting someone with an important position; making much of
spear; lance; javelin; lance; (arch.) jeering
achievement; feat; distinguished service; meritorious deed
legitimate; orthodox; traditional
few decades; many decades; several decades
to fall (over, down); to collapse; to be destroyed (in a collapse); to collapse; to be confined to bed (with an illness); to come down with; to die
safekeeping; temporary custody; claim check; deposit receipt; matter left undecided; unresolved issue
all things must pass; all worldly things are impermanent
ups and downs of life; vicissitudes of fortune
even the prosperous inevitably decay; sic transit gloria mundi; all that's fair must fade
military family; warrior class
reason; logic; sense; natural way of things
too (much); overly; excessively
shabby; unsightly; unkempt
social standing of a family; lineage; parentage; good family
dizzying (speed, changes, etc.); rapid; drastic; bewildering; hectic; bustling (e.g. world)
militarism; warlike spirit
before one knows; unnoticed; unawares
to spend all one's time doing; to do day in, day out; to do nothing but ...; to pass (of days)
mere shadow of one's former self; having no trace left (of former glories, talent, looks, etc.); unrecognizable (as the person one used to be); unrecognisable