guidance; leadership; leading the way
generation; the world; the age
secret (method, trick, etc.); key (e.g. to success); mysteries (of an art, trade, etc.); recipe; trick
race (of people); type of person
to be completed; to be finished; to be ready (e.g. to serve or eat); to be very drunk
on the way; en route; in the middle of; midway; halfway
sinking; foundering; getting dead drunk; having too much fun (esp. in a red-light district, etc.) and missing work or neglecting one's duties; staying in one place for a long time
something like ...; things like ...; someone like ...; the likes of ...
set; company; companions; fellows
to be mixed; to be blended with; to be combined; to associate with; to mingle with; to interest
luckily; blessedly; fortunately
speculator; adventurer; imposter; prospector
first-person plural (or singular); second or third person plural (implies speaker is of higher status than those referred to)
to be certain of; to have faith in; to believe completely; to trust (someone completely)
to raise; to raise up; to wake; to wake up; to cause; to bring about; to start
wealth; riches; affluence; opulence
cultivation; refinement; culture; education
-ian (e.g. Italian); -ite (e.g. Tokyoite); -er (e.g. performer, etc.); person working with ...; man; person
abasement; fall; forfeiture; sinking (in people's estimation)
useless; futile; unnecessary; needless; not on business; unrelated
same feeling; same sentiment; same opinion; sympathy; agreement; concurrence
easy; likely to ...; have a tendency to ...; easy to ...
tendency; trend; inclination
betterment; improvement; kaizen (Japanese business philosophy of continuous improvement)
at first; in the beginning; originally
university; college; former central university of Kyoto (established under the ritsuryo system for the training of government administrators); the Great Learning (one of the Four Books)
great (quantity, amount, etc.); huge; enormous; serious
time; hour; period; class
waste; lavish spending; dissipation
failure; mistake; blunder
excessive; too much; unreasonable
discouragement; despondency; dejection; disappointment
emergency; extraordinary; unusual
depending on; dependent on
to gather; to collect; to assemble
to run away; to flee; to make off; to start to run away
happiness; blessedness; luck; luckily; fortunately
smirkingly; broadly (grinning)
culture; civilization; civilisation; Bunka era (1804.2.11-1818.4.22)