romance (e.g. Arthurian romances) ②(nigh) impossible dream ③(full-length) novel ④romance

ronin

ronin ②high school graduate waiting for another chance to enter university after having failed the yearly entrance examination ③person out of work ④wanderer

vagrancy

waste

wanderer

wandering

student waiting for another chance to enter university after having failed the yearly entrance examination

vagrant

waves

vagrant habits

wandering people

wind and wave

poor or lowly masterless samurai

vagrant

wasteful habits

rōkyoku

(leading) a vagabond life

nomad

jobless university graduate

waves in narrow straits

tale featuring robbers

wake (of a ship) ②going missing without a trace

naniwabushi

of the old feeling of naniwa-bushi

native of Osaka