large landowner; major landowner; great landowner
ruin; fall; collapse; downfall; bankruptcy
peerage (in Japan; 1869-1947); nobility; aristocracy
son-in-law taken (adopted) into family
country; state; region; national government; central government; home (i.e. hometown, home country); province (of Japan)
present (e.g. government, administration); current; existing
head of a family; patriarch; matriarch
to lose weight; to become thin; to wither away
strong arm; stout arm; ability to carry out a difficult job; capable person
family which supports a temple; parishioner
Shinto priest; Shinto priesthood
to manage (all by oneself); to control; to run; to take charge of
property; fortune; means; assets
to content oneself with; to be resigned to (one's fate); to be contented (satisfied) with (one's lot)
industry; (arch.) livelihood; (arch.) occupation
development; growth; development (of a situation, story, etc.); advancement; playing around (sexually; esp. of a male homosexual); having an active sex life
base; basis; bedrock; platform
to vitalize (e.g. an industry); to invigorate; to energize; to establish (e.g. a company); to build up; to set up
inside; interior; inner part
economic; financial; economical; thrifty; frugal
lineage; stock; descent; strain; blood relationship
merchant; trader; tradesman; dealer; shopkeeper
both in name and reality; both in name and substance
heir; successor; family estate; family fortune; headship of a family
to exterminate; to eradicate; to wipe out; to let (fire) go out; to let die (e.g. flowers); to run out of
to succeed (a person, to a position, etc.); to inherit; to patch (clothes); to mend; to add (e.g. charcoal to the fire); to replenish with
bond (between people); (emotional) ties; bonds; tether; fetters
eldest son (may be the only son); first-born son
(public) notice; attention; public eye; public gaze
one meaning; primary importance; primary significance; a reason; a truth
to be playful; to gambol; to flirt with; (arch.) to have elegance; (arch.) to have refinement
mistress; kept woman; concubine