盛

making arbitrary decisions which benefit oneself; self-approved plan

period of rapid growth

morale being very high; heightened fighting spirit

rise and fall; ups and downs; waxing and waning; prosperity and decline; vicissitudes

rise and fall; prosperity and decline; vicissitudes

cordial reception

to poison; to drug

prosperity and decay; rise and fall; ebb and flow; vicissitudes (of fortune)

tender age

Buddhism

pain caused by the five skandhas

the prime of one's career

Food, cooking

warm soba noodles (esp. for dipping, either served after being boiled, or cooled and then rewarmed)

being full of energy (drive, motivation, vitality)

piling up high (food in a bowl); filling (a bowl); heaped bowl

to grow in prosperity

prime of life; noontide of life

single helping (e.g. of rice)

to poison to death; to kill by a prescription error

thriving business

temperature scale

Idiomatic expression

to pour new wine into old wineskins; to give something unorthodox an orthodox presentation

Proverb

time and tide wait for no man

logarithmic scale

raised ground level