attention; giving one's attention; focusing
favour; favor; warm friendship
crumbling; collapse; ruin; has-been; wannabe
annoyance (to); bane (of); constant worry (to)
lovers' tiff; quarrel between lovers; chattering; idle talk
to wander from place to place; to change jobs
wordly things; common customs; the world; the (common) people; secularity
craft; cunning; guile; serpentine wisdom
staff officer; military staff; adviser; counselor; counsellor
haberdashery; sundries store
young adult still living at home; dependent; female servant working for a lady-in-waiting working in the inner part of a lord's house (Edo period); freeloader living in a samurai's house; young kabuki actor in service of a master (Edo period)
guidance; lead; guide; primer; influence; connections
wisdom; jnana (higher knowledge)
visit to a temple or shrine; worship; pilgrimage
to get to know each other; to make acquaintance
glance; look; glimpse; complete view; bird's-eye view
chance; start; cue; excuse; motive; impetus
to use as a pretext; to use as an excuse
to compete; to contest; to quarrel; to argue; to deny (e.g. evidence)
the body; the flesh; the outer man; one's physique
freely; generously; liberally; ungrudgingly; unsparingly
general mobilization; general mobilisation
roofing; roofed with; thatching; thatched with; shingling; shingled with
underling; person of low standing; grunt; petty (work, official, etc.); minor; lowly
upper class; upper echelons of society; the rich and powerful; the elite
to allot; to allocate; to supply with; to furnish; to fit to; to fasten to
cancellation; liquidation; resolution; reduction (e.g. of stress)
to cheat someone out of; to wangle; to get; to obtain
monks make pure profit; monks need no capital and have no expenses, so their income is pure profit
(the) mainstream; main course (of a river); main stream
(something that is) available for use at any time; (someone who is) at one's beck and call; (something over which) one has complete mastery
double; two-fold; diplo-; dipl-; double-edged eyelid; double eyelid
twofold and threefold; doubled and redoubled
chief financial official (Edo period); commissioner of finance; chief treasurer; chief accountant in a daimyo's service (Muromachi period)
economy; economics; finance; (one's) finances; being economical; economy
one move (in go, shogi, etc.); only way; only means; doing alone; doing single-handed
vast; huge; immense; malva nut (Sterculia lychnophora)
private funds; own funds; private property
to move; to shift; to inspire; to rouse; to change; to alter; to operate
unrelated; irrelevant; unconcerned; unconnected