subscription; contribution
establishment; founding; organization; organisation
academic traditions; academic school of thought; method of study
first year; early years (of a reign or era)
suitable; appropriate; befitting; conjoining; association; samprayukta
(way of) life; living; livelihood; life circumstances
reformation; revolution; renewal; Meiji Restoration
revolution; cataclysm; drastic change
indeed; really; absolutely; truly; actually; very
expectation; assume will happen; forecast
trouble; troubles; worry; distress; sorrows; anguish
neurasthenia; nervous breakdown; concentration (card game involving turning over face-down cards to find identical pairs)
to fall into (e.g. a hole); to fall into (chaos, depression, dilemma, illness, etc.); to fall into (a trap, etc.); to fall; to surrender
rubbish; trash; garbage; refuse
rubbish; trash; garbage; refuse
kimono fabrics shop; draper's shop
household economy; family finances
after (practically) no time; immediately after; just; having no time to
failure; mistake; blunder
Osaka (city); (arch.) large hill
new; fresh; new item (e.g. customer, regulation); newly created object; new customer
to sow; to plant; to sow (the seeds of; e.g. conflict); to sprinkle (gold or silver powder on lacquerware)
correction; rectification; mending; repair
to try and do something; to attempt to do something
September; ninth month of the lunar calendar
twelfth day of the month; twelve days
express messenger; postman; mailman; courier
news of someone's death; obituary
to bring; to take; to bring about
on the occasion of; circumstances; juncture
grief; sorrow; anguish; lamentation
(not) particularly; (not) especially; (not) specially; separately; apart; additionally
teacher; master; religious leader; specialist; (arch.) five-battalion brigade comprising 2500 men (Zhou-dynasty Chinese army)
to take (seat, position, course, office, etc.); to assume; to ascend (the throne); to accede; to start (on a journey); to commence
it does not mean that ...; I don't mean that ...; it is not the case that...
passing away; death; dying words; death poem (poem written during one's final moments)
-ness; indicates assertion; come; come now
body; oneself; one's place; one's position; main part; meat (as opposed to bone, skin, etc.)
ditch; drain; groove; tread; gap (between people, countries, etc.); gulf
being at sea; losing one's bearings; (arch.) disorientation upon waking at night; (arch.) forgetting which house or room to enter