世

this world; life

heyday; prime; one's glory; the height of one's prosperity

for generations; from generation to generation; generation after generation; through the ages

being alive; living

gambler; yakuza; person without a legitimate job

misedashi; debut of an apprentice geisha; ceremony in which a shikomi becomes a maiko

long era; ages; eternity

thousands of years; eternity; all generations

Avalokiteshvara (Bodhisattva); Avalokitesvara; Kannon; Kwannon; Guanyin; Buddhist deity of compassion

weariness with life; world-weariness; pessimism

real world; outside world (e.g. the world outside of school)

Salvation Army

creation myth

latest style (fashion, hairstyle, etc.); up-to-date style

unearthly; otherworldly; out of this world; ethereal

Avalokiteshvara (Bodhisattva); Avalokitesvara; Kannon; Kwannon; Guanyin; Buddhist deity of compassion

nakamise; shops lining a passageway in the precincts of a Shinto shrine

feeling that one is living in a completely different age; feeling that something belongs to a different age; feeling that the world has changed dramatically

two-family house; house for a two-generation family

seclusion from the world

Buddhism

monastic seclusion

ukiyo-e artist

shopping street in the precincts of a shrine (temple)

one's world within; one's inner world

Third World