transmission from generation to generation
 century;  era;  of the century (e.g. fight of the century)
 troubled times;  turbulent times
 antiquity;  the previous era
 Middle Ages (in Japan esp. the Kamakura and Muromachi periods);  medieval times;  mediaeval times
 nisei;  second-generation Japanese (or Korean, etc.);  the second (e.g. Edward II);  son
 public opinion;  popular voice;  public sentiment;  consensus
 three generations;  third generation immigrant;  sansei;  the third (e.g. Henry III)
 afterlife;  the next world;  the world beyond
 rule;  reign;  peaceful times
 wordly things;  common customs;  the world;  the (common) people;  secularity
 four generations;  fourth generation immigrant;  yonsei;  the fourth (e.g. George IV)
 five generations;  fifth generation immigrant;  gosei;  the fifth (e.g. George V)
 rare;  extraordinary;  unparalleled;  unparallelled
 passing away;  death;  dying words;  death poem (poem written during one's final moments)
 worldly affairs;  ways of the world
 for generations;  hereditary;  generation after generation
 state of society;  social conditions;  order of the world
 separation of ages;  being of a different age
 administration;  government;  conduct of state affairs
 successive generations;  successive emperors
 destiny of the world;  course of events in the world
 alluvial epoch (i.e. the Holocene epoch)
 binding legal effectiveness as to third parties
 Edo-period school of Chinese medicine based on post-Jin and Yuan teachings
 Charvaka (ancient school of Indian materialism);  Lokayata