noun:

• high and low; (people of) all ranks and classes - four character idiom

noun:

• public music and dancing; performance of song and dance entertainment - four character idiom

noun / adjectival noun:

• wide knowledge and versatile talents; profound learning and varied attainments - four character idiom

noun:

• rich and poor, high and low; people of all ranks - four character idiom

noun / ~する noun:

• being protean and elusive; appear and disappear like a phantom - four character idiom

noun:

• seafood and vegetables cooked sukiyaki style and served with udon ➜ 魚すき

noun:

• large and small buildings, esp. shrines and temples - archaism

noun:

• ritual singing and dancing gathering of young men and women - archaism ➜ 歌垣

noun:

• God and Buddha; Gods and Buddhas; one's guardian angel

noun:

• inn; tavern; hatago; Edo period lodging for travellers ➜ 旅籠屋
• basket used by travellers to carry food and other supplies
• basket used by travellers to carry horse fodder - orig. meaning

ichidan verb / transitive:

• to tie up in a bundle (e.g. straw, hair, bills, letters); to bundle; to sheathe
• to govern; to manage; to control; to administer
• to fold (one's arms); to put together (one's hands) ［つかねる］

godan ~う verb / intransitive verb:

• to be moist; to be damp; to get wet; to be watered
• to profit by; to receive benefits; to receive favors (favours)
• to become rich; to become at ease financially

noun:

• being so broad-minded as to accept all sorts of things, both good and evil; being broad-minded enough to be tolerant of people of all shades - four character idiom

expression:

• sacrifice something small in order to save something great; lose a leg to save one's life; let a large bug live and kill a small one [literal] - proverb

godan ~る verb / intransitive verb:

• to join; to be put together; to combine; to unite; to fit; to close (e.g. of a wound)

godan ~す verb / transitive:

• to destroy; to crush; to break by striking; to wreck
• to spoil; to ruin

godan ~く verb / transitive:

• to gouge out; to excavate; to hollow; to bore; to drill; to carve (e.g. pumpkin)

ichidan verb / transitive:

• to show contempt for; to look down upon; to have a low opinion of
• to cause to fall; to make decline

noun / suffix noun:

• feudal domain (Edo and early Meiji periods, precursor to current prefectures); fiefdom; province; clan

particle:

• although; despite; even though; and yet
• whereas; while
• if only; I wish
• in order to

noun:

• dessert (esp. in Italian cuisine); sweets; cake - From Italian "dolce"

adverb:

• dolce; (to be performed) gently and sweetly - Music term - From Italian

noun:

• Maruyama vaccine (said to be effective against leprosy, cancer and cutaneous tuberculosis)

noun:

• examinatinon with MRI, MRA, etc. to check for aneurysms and other problems - from "brain dry-dock" ➜ 人間ドック

godan ~う verb / intransitive verb:

• to make war (on); to wage war (against); to go to war (with); to fight (with); to do battle (against) - esp. 戦う
• to compete (against) - esp. 戦う
• to struggle (against adversities, etc.); to fight; to contend; to resist - esp. 闘う

expression:

• leave no room for scandal; don't do anything that can be misinterpreted; don't straighten your cap under a plum tree (because when you raise your hands it might look as if you're trying to steal the plums) [literal] - proverb