master and servant; lord and retainer; employer and employee
bucket maker; well maker; cooper; hooper
good fortune; happiness; blessing; good luck
tolerant; generous; lenient; broad-minded; magnanimous
same village; same town; same province
katsudon; pork cutlet served on top of a bowl of rice
bowl of eel and rice (donburi)
joint; link; knot; tie-together point
this and that; one thing and another
characteristic; traditional; peculiar; inherent; native; eigen-
to coil around; to follow about; to be related to; to concern; to be associated with
snugly (into hole, container, etc.); tightly (fitting, covering); firmly; (with a) pop (i.e. sound of a cork, etc. being pulled out of a hole in one movement); with a plop; (fall) straight
attaching the polite suffix "-san" to somebody's name
wiping out; sweeping away; eradicating; dispelling
one's circumstances; environment; situation (in life)
grounds; foundation; authority; support; prop; something upon which to rely
ripening (of a crop); crop; harvest
to push aside; to brush aside
spreading around (news, rumor, etc.); making widely known; making public; publicizing; proclaiming
generally; mainly; nearly all; almost all; gist; summary; staying within bounds
all eyes; public attention
of great promise; with a promising future
to fan; to incite; to instigate
labor; labour; toil; hardship
wind direction; situation; way things are going; mood; temper
to let the tension out of one's shoulders; to relax; to not take oneself too seriously
to go out and away; to leave
to have a narrow escape from death
delineation; demarcation; drawing a line (e.g. between what's acceptable and unacceptable); (measuring) ruler
dullard; indecisive person
self-affirmation; self-approval
friendship; friendly relations; connection; relation; intimacy
livelihood; subsistence; business; trade; profession
fleeting life; this transient world; sad world; world of grief and worry; the world of the living; this life
person from the same province, town, village, etc.
supreme; greatest; highest; best
to finish reading; to read through
to have a (rough) idea (of what the situation is)