noun:

• hardships and joys; tasting the sweets and bitters of life; (having seen much of life) being well-versed in the ways of the world - four character idiom

noun:

• little girl; maiden; young lady; female usually between 7 and 18 years old
• female between 17 and 20 years old (ritsuryo period) ［しょうじょ・少女］ - archaism

conjunction:

• cum (e.g. bedroom-cum-study); holding both roles (e.g. Prime Minister and Minister of Foreign Affairs); and; in addition; concurrently; at the same time

noun:

• Buddhist center for study and meditation; monastery; temple - abbreviation of 栴檀林 - Buddhism term ➜ 栴檀
• Danrin style of haikai poetry (playful and oriented to the common person); Danrin school (of haikai poetry) - abbreviation ➜ 俳諧・談林風・談林派

noun:

• townscape; street (of stores and houses); (look of) stores and houses on street

noun / ~する noun:

• reorganize an enterprise and weed out redundant workers; reorganize an industry and weed out redudant enterprises - four character idiom

noun:

• steward in charge of the affairs of nobles of the third rank and higher (from the middle of the Heian period)
• administrative position (Kamakura and Muromachi periods) ➜ 政所

noun:

• criminal, administrative and civil codes (forming the basis of ancient East Asian law; orig. Chinese); legal codes of the Nara and Heian eras based on Chinese models ➜ 律・令【りょう】

adjectival noun / ~の noun / noun:

• stormy and full of drama; many drastic events in the course of events; full of ups and downs; with many vicissitudes - four character idiom

noun:

• (former) Ministry of International Trade and Industry (now Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry); MITI

noun:

• one's own flesh and blood; blood relative; kinsman
• flesh and bone; (one's) body

noun:

• (former) Ministry of International Trade and Industry (now Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry); MITI ➜ 経済産業省【けいざいさんぎょうしょう】

expression:

• Heaven is black and earth is yellow; heaven and earth - four character idiom

expression:

• money comes and goes; money goes around and around - proverb

noun:

• a snipe and a clam; a snipe and a mussel ➜ 鷸蚌の争い

noun:

• miso with sugar, sake, yuzu juice and skin - esp. ゆずみそ ➜ 練り味噌【ねりみそ】
• hollowed out yuzu stuffed with miso and yuzu juice then baked - esp. ゆみそ

noun:

• leader; boss
• upper part of a flag
• (Okinawa) bamboo poles with an attached vertical flag and an elaborate display at the top that are used during the annual fertility and thanks-giving festivals

noun:

• mamba (snake of the genus Dendroaspis)
• yamanba; manba; girl or young woman adhering to a fashion trend often characterized by extremely gaudy and colourful facial make up, heavily tanned skin and hair dyed in a bright hue - abbreviation ➜ ヤマンバ

noun:

• peacherine; hybrid of a peach and a nectarine; cross between a peach and a nectarine

expression:

• all pain, no gain; doing no good and a lot of harm; having no redeeming features; being a complete disadvantage; a hundred harms and not a single gain [literal] - idiom

noun:

• decorating the alcove of a tea room with a hanging scroll and flowers (in more formal tea ceremonies, during only the first and second half respectively)
• style of decorating a traditional Japanese room (esp. a study) in which incense, a pair of vases and a pair of candlesticks are placed on a table in front of a trio of hanging scrolls - orig. meaning

pre-noun adjectival:

• such (about something or someone distant from both speaker and listener, or about a situation unfamiliar to both speaker and listener); so; that; sort of ➜ こんな・そんな・どんな

pre-noun adjectival:

• such (about something or someone distant from both speaker and listener, or about a situation unfamiliar to both speaker and listener); so; that; sort of - Hiroshima dialect ➜ あんな

noun:

• teapot-like object made typically of lacquerware and used to pour hot and cold liquids
• basin of water with two handles on either side used for washing one's face or hands ➜ 盥

noun / ~する noun:

• being evenly matched; being equal with; being on a par with; being well contested

noun:

• eldest and second eldest brother; older and younger brother - orig. meaning - archaism