wind direction; situation; way things are going; mood; temper
youth; springtime of life; adolescent
daily employment; hiring by the day; day laborer; day labourer
to spend; to expend; to waste; to squander; to devote
(not) by any means; (not) for anything; wouldn't do for anything; had enough; flatly refusing
shallows; shoal; rapids; current; position; place
counter for occurrences; a time; an instance; inning (baseball); round; episode; chapter
to torment; to punish; to treat harshly; to beat up; to give a drubbing; to cause damage to
to be familiar; to learn by ear; to pick up knowledge
he; she; this; this one; Hey, you!; You bastard!
private tutor; coach; governess
not knowing one's social position; overweening; overreaching; forgetting who one is
tragedy; tragic drama; tragic play; tragedy; calamity; disaster
favoritism; favouritism; partiality; prejudice; bias
crumbling; collapse; ruin; has-been; wannabe
he; she; that person; that; that one; that thing
gentlemen of (high) eminence; notables; dignitaries
who's who; directory; social register
party; banquet; reception; feast; dinner
chief vassal; senior statesman
brilliant; splendid; glorious; magnificent; spectacular
making one's debut; making one's first appearance; (just) showing one's face; showing up; introductory kabuki performance (to introduce the actors); December kabuki performance at Kyoto's Minamiza Theater in which all famous actors perform
person's origin (e.g. city, country, parentage, school)
origin; birthplace; descent; lineage; ancestry
parent; parents; dealer (in cards, mahjong, etc.); banker; founder; inventor; (pet) owner
abandoned child; foundling
barefoot; superior to (a professional, etc. in ability or achievement)
pity; sympathy; compassion; affection; love
brat; kid; urchin; preta; hungry ghost
doing; in such a state; doing together; doing to each other; familiarizing suffix (sometimes meaning "small")
column; beam; girder; digit; decade; order of magnitude
as a child; when one was a child; childhood
(not) well; (not) properly; (not) enough; (not) sufficiently; (not) satisfactorily; (not) decently
at this stage; at this point; now (contrasting with the past)
resentment; grudge; malice; matter for regret; regret
system; institution; organization; organisation
desire to act only in one's self-interest; selfish desires
unheard-of; unprecedented; unparalleled in history (unparallelled); record-breaking