affection (esp. parental); love; fondness
slow-witted; dull; slow on the uptake
moving; touching; stirring
looking on from afar; being a spectator
savage; barbarous; barbaric; uncivilized; uncivilised
24 hours; twenty-four hours
order; system; structure; set-up; organization; organisation
effect; result; worth; use; avail
to make a fresh start; to turn over a new leaf; to call again; to visit again; to come again
confrontation; opposition; antagonism
popular; folksy; plebeian; ordinary; unpretentious
scriptures; canon; teaching guide
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)
barrier-free; planning or design to facilitate accessibility for the elderly and disabled
advanced; developed; seniority; senior; superior
reason; principle; general principle (as opposed to individual concrete phenomenon); (in neo-Confucianism) the underlying principles of the cosmos
horizontally; flat; across; crossways; crosswise
to pose as; to (successfully) impersonate; to pretend to be; to (completely) become; to (fully) turn into
ominous; sinister; unlucky; inauspicious
world; society; life; lifetime; age; era; reign
to pile up; to make a heap; to lay (e.g. bricks); to acquire (e.g. experience); to build (a reputation)
decider; person who decides; deciding factor; clincher; trump card
(something) has never occurred; to have never done (something); such a thing has not happened; never happens; there is never a time when
passage (of time); elapsing; progress; development; transit
comical (story, song); comic; the comedy business (rakugo, manzai, etc.); something laughable
special; auspicious; happy; naive; innocent; good-natured
to disappear; to vanish; (arch.) to die
decomposition; putrefaction; putrescence; corruption; degeneracy; decay
small; small-sized; small-scale; miniature
to bury; to inter; to entomb; to cover up; to hush up; to shelve
to fall apart; to collapse; to be completely defeated (in battle); to be wiped out; (arch.) to fall apart (one's body or health)
forbidding to speak; muzzling (a person); bribing into secrecy; hush money
not a chance; you wish!; that's not going to happen; that won't work
to falter; to flinch (from); to recoil (from); to quail (at)
halfway; half measures; unfinished; incomplete; by halves; half-baked
to tear up; to tear off; to rip up; to separate (e.g. a couple); to disrupt (a relationship)
request; favor; favour; reliance; dependence; trust
throughout; over a period of ...; over a span of ...