noun:

• business handbook (with glossary) of Edo period - four character idiom

noun:

• match held in front of the Emperor - Sumo term

noun:

• go-slow tactics (of Japanese railway workers) - four character idiom

~たる adjective / ~と adverb:

• (a work of art being) sublime; transcendent - archaism - four character idiom

noun:

• argument as to (about) the authenticity (of...) - four character idiom

noun:

• person of lofty virtue and great wisdom - four character idiom

noun / adjectival noun:

• persuasiveness; skilled in the art of persuasion - four character idiom

noun:

• being devoid of consideration for human beings - four character idiom

noun:

• climate and natural features (of a region) - four character idiom

noun:

• (committing, resorting to) an act of violence - four character idiom

noun:

• in and around the city of Kyoto - four character idiom

noun:

• beautiful scenery of spring - four character idiom
• red-light district

expression:

• jokingly; in the form of a joke

noun:

• Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry; METI - abbreviation ➜ 経済産業省

noun / adjectival noun:

• difference (of opinion)

adjectival noun:

• strange; odd; unusual

prefix:

• different

noun:

• Ministry of Culture (e.g. in China)

~と adverb:

• appearing drowsy or intoxicated (of eyes, actions, etc.) - onomatopoeia

ichidan verb:

• to carry (of digit, bit, etc.) - IT term

expression:

• wide-low (description of a small truck)

noun:

• one's own faction (of a party)

noun:

• east face (e.g. of a building)

noun:

• the "thirty-percent autonomy" of local governments

noun:

• the large number of temples in Kyoto - four character idiom

noun:

• Araliaceae; family of flowering plants

noun:

• Cornaceae (dogwood family of plants) ➜ 水木