declining aristocracy, an elite class of people displaced by changes in society / (specifically) the Japanese upper class brought to ruin after World War II

hometown, the place one comes from / the school from which one graduated / the group or organization from which one comes

style, form

the setting sun; slanting rays of the evening sun / (figuratively) decline, fading

today, this day / nowadays

Same as こんにち above

good day, good afternoon: a Japanese greeting used in the daytime

(archaic) (as for) today

live a life

he / distal demonstrative, something far off removed from both speaker and listener: that / boyfriend