gem; jewel; precious stone
to play a leading role; to play a central part
influential; powerful; popular; prosperous; doing well
customer; client; client company; business connection; trade partner
baton (of command); order; command; direction
family business; family trade; one's occupation; one's trade
to put back up; to stand back up; to restore (to former strength); to revive (e.g. the economy); to make again (a plan, policy, etc.); to reformulate
estate; homestead; house and land (it stands on); messuage
lodger who pays nothing for room and board; freeloader; sponger
to erase all trace of something
more than most people; more than other people; compared with other people; more than others
hand-me-down; food offering to the gods; leftovers; trip from Kyoto to the provinces
to experience chest pain; to have a pain in one's chest; to feel sick at heart; to have one's heart ache; to be anguished
constraint; reserve; feeling hesitant; being afraid of troubling someone
senior high school; high school
general; universal; ordinary; average; (arch.) the same; (arch.) no different
study subject; course of study; department (university, etc.)
name of an imperial era (e.g. Heisei, Shōwa); Japanese era name
wish; desire; hope; prospect; expectation; (one's) hopes
day in and day out; all the time
smartly dressed; stylish; someone smartly dressed; to dress up; to be fashionable
to attract; to draw near; to charm; to attract; to have a convulsion
owning a lot of clothes; person who owns a lot of clothes
having a weakness for fine clothes
to take home; to carry home; to bring back home; to take out (e.g. food)
to indulge in; to give oneself up to; to be obsessed by; to be engrossed in; to be lost in; to be absorbed in
to miss (doing); to fail (to do)
contriving (to raise funds, to find time, etc.); working out (a solution)
cutting (cloth, paper); judgement; judgment; decision
learning; scholarship; study; study of ...; -ology; -ics
knitting; knitted material; crochet
vocational school; technical school