expression:

• poverty is the greatest motivator; poverty is the mother of invention - proverb

noun:

• the world; society; the universe
• sphere; circle; world

~の noun:

• renowned; world-famous; well-known outside of Japan

noun:

• realm governed by one Buddha; space - original meaning - Buddhism term

noun:

• the Big Dipper (asterism); the Plough; the Plow - Astronomy term ➜ 北斗七星
• the seven luminaries (sun, moon, Mercury, Venus, Mars, Jupiter and Saturn) - Astronomy term ➜ 七曜

expression:

• the blind leading the blind; if the blind lead the blind, both shall fall into the ditch - proverb

noun:

• credit - abbreviation ➜ 掛け売り・掛け買い
• money owed on an account; bill
• hot noodles in broth - abbreviation - usually written using kana alone ➜ 掛け蕎麦【かけそば】・掛けうどん【かけうどん】

noun / suffix noun:

• proportion (of wholesale price, as tenths of list price)

suffix:

• in the midst of - after a -masu stem
• rest; rack; hanger - after a noun

noun:

• layman (esp. as opposed to a Buddhist monk); laity; man of the world; the world
• local manners; modern customs

adjectival noun / ~の noun:

• common; popular
• vulgar; low Antonym: 雅【が】

noun:

• postcards with the bottom third of the front side reserved for an advertisement, and sold at a lower cost than regular postcards

noun:

• shelving (a play, movie, etc.); closing down; cancelling; canceling; shelf (i.e. "on the shelf") ➜ 蔵【くら】
• rice storehouse of the Edo shogunate

noun:

• companies exploiting debtors by forcing them to make expensive credit card purchases and buying the purchases at a fraction of the price

adverb:

• before one's own eyes; from under one's very nose; without doing anything; without resistance; helplessly; negligently; knowingly

godan ~ぶ verb:

• to be ruined; to go under; to perish; to be destroyed ➜ 滅びる

noun:

• false science; science out of line with the world of thought

noun:

• facets (aspects) of (human) life; the pattern of (one's) life - four character idiom

noun:

• on the brink of collapse; in a state of near-collapse - four character idiom

noun:

• the pacific side of Japan; eastern sea
• of or about Japan

noun:

• moon of the 13th day of 9th lunar month - archaism ➜ 十三夜
• leap month ➜ 閏月

noun:

• common talk; talk of the town; words of many people

noun:

• cult of the open air; pleinairism; pleinairisme
• painter of pleinairisme; pleinairist

noun:

• resistance - From French
• popular resistance against a military invasion (especially of that by the French against the Nazis in World War II)

noun:

• Vermilion Bird (god said to rule over the southern heavens) ➜ 四神
• seven mansions (Chinese constellations) of the southern heavens - Astronomy term ➜ 二十八宿

noun:

• Pindola; Pindola Bharadvaja (one of four Arhats asked by the Buddha to remain in the world to propagate Buddhist law) - Buddhism term

noun:

• toes; tips of the toes; toe of a shoe, sock, etc.

noun:

• nature of the locality; character of a place; local colour; local color

noun:

• daybreak; dawn; gray of the morning (grey)
• dawn (of a new age)

noun:

• book containing a collection of poems
• Psalms (book of the Bible)