growth; development; one's early life; upbringing; personal history
well; properly; often; how (could you); why (would you)
old person; elderly person; trustee of the Japan Sumo Association; retired high-ranking wrestler who is licensed to coach and receives retirement pay; senior statesman (of the Tokugawa shogunate); important local official (under the Tokugawa Shogunate)
to court; to woo; to approach defiantly
main; principal; main dish; main course; main part; principal part
esoteric Buddhism; Tantric Buddhism; Vajrayana; secret Buddhist teachings; Mikkyō
Shugendō; Japanese mountain asceticism incorporating Shinto and Buddhist concepts
summarization; summary; generalization; review (by labour or political movements of past activities, results, etc.)
profound; deep; deep (of a cave, etc.); innermost; interior
periodic; regular; routine
successively; one after another; sequentially; one by one
government worker; public servant; civil servant
to go unpunished; to be tolerated; to be allowed; to be overlooked
uncertain; vague; ambiguous
wide sense (e.g. of a word); broad sense
general mobilization; general mobilisation
attendance; presence; appearance
goes without saying; needless to say; obvious
collision; crash; running into; conflict; quarrel; clashing
background; scenery; background (of an incident, situation, etc.); circumstances; backing; support (from behind the scenes)
blind spot (on the retina); blind spot; weak point; loophole
automatic car; car with automatic transmission
(instruction) manual; operations manual; basic rules (pertaining to how a job should be carried out); (car with) manual transmission
horsepower; hp; energy; vitality; horse-drawn cart
so to speak; so to call it; as it were
advanced student; advanced learner; advanced practitioner; experienced person
being in dire distress; being hard put to it; the four and eight kinds of suffering
disagreeableness; unpleasantness; nastiness; cutting remark; disagreeable remark; snide comment
unanticipated; unexpected
to be grounded on; to be based on; to be due to; to originate from
composition; construction; formation; makeup; structure; organization
class; level; stratum; layer; hierarchy
human relations; personal relationships
innumerable; countless; numberless
to be mixed up with; to have a connection with (a troublesome matter); to be a stickler about; to be finicky about (some triviality); to take part (in some work); to hang about