knowledge; awareness; consent; acceptance; forgiving; pardoning
immediate; prompt; quick; rapid; urgent; pressing
to send (someone) back; to send (someone) home
putting that aside; that said; apart from that; anyway; be that as it may
to desire; to wish; to beg; to request; to have something done for oneself
door; gate; opening; title page
honeybee (Apis sp.); honey bee
box; case; car (of a train, etc.); shamisen case; shamisen; public building; community building
to compare (something) to; to liken; to speak figuratively; to use a simile; to use a metaphor
to permit; to allow; to forgive; to pardon; to exempt (someone) from; to remit; to acknowledge
to gather; to crowd round; to sponge (off someone); to scrounge; to extort; to take (money) through intimidation
in swarms; in clusters; tediously; slowly
a short while ago; already
intimacy; friendship; familiarity
to turn up; to make an appearance; to put in an appearance; to drop by
polite; respectful; reverent
to butt into a conversation (from someone uninvolved)
few; a little; scarce; insufficient; seldom
two by two; by twos; as a couple
to be needed; to be wanted
to send for (doctor, etc.)
person with a lot of free time on their hands; person of leisure; idler; loafer
surely; undoubtedly; sternly; severely; having no slack; rigid
to entrust (e.g. a task) to another; to leave to; to passively leave to someone else's facilities; to leave to take its natural course; to continue (something) in a natural fashion (without particular aim); to rely fully on one's (full strength, great ability, long time taken) to get something done
only; just; since; after; remaining (in a particular state)
accepting bribes; corruption; graft
China; Han dynasty (China, 202 BCE-220 CE); Han (majority Chinese ethnic group); man
grip; having all the cards needed to form a scoring combination in one's hand
supervision; control; superintendence; director; superintendent; supervisor
karuta; traditional Japanese playing cards
near; close by; within reach; familiar
each and every one of them; every last one of them; all a bunch of
this world; this life; the free world (outside of prison, the army, red light district, etc.); this corrupt world; present world
to stop up; to close up; to stand in the way; to obstruct; to occupy; to fill up
yakuza; gangster; mobster; useless; worthless; good-for-nothing
you are quite right; reasonable; natural; just
the person in question; prominent figure; distinguished person; that person