(Meiji and Taishō period) student / (later) a student who helps with housework in exchange for lodging

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

distal demonstrative, something far off removed from both speaker and listener: that, yon / particularly, male personal third person pronoun: he / by extension from he: boyfriend

he; boyfriend

a male given name

(historical) The Meiji era: the Japanese era beginning in 1868 and ending in 1912.

age, era, period (of time) / the times, spirit of the age / antiquity / a time in one's life, one's days (in college etc.)

live a life

life; livelihood; daily living.

the Meiji Restoration