noun:

• the "three noes principle" of no drive (indolence), no interest (indifference), and no sense of responsibility (irresponsibility), the term describing the temperament of the Japanese youth of the 1970s - four character idiom

noun:

• probe into the truth (of the matter); dig into the real facts of the case; get at the root of a matter - four character idiom

noun:

• calling on someone who is ill; enquiry; inquiry ➜ 見舞い

expression:

• I agree with you; it is as (someone) says - honorific language ➜ 言う通り

expression / noun:

• taking pride in something mundane, thinking it is exceptional; Liaodong boar [literal]

noun:

• retirement ceremony of a wrestler where his top-knot is cut - Sumo term

noun:

• breaking into cold sweat when one is very embarrassed or scared - four character idiom

expression:

• Happy events are often accompanied by difficulties; Unsullied joy is rare - four character idiom

expression:

• Freedom from one's desires (Entry into Nirvana) is true bliss - four character idiom

noun:

• somebody who is bad at horse-riding
• a fidgety, restless person

noun:

• wait (until one is given permission)
• postponement; putting on hold

adjective:

• it cannot be helped; there is no way ➜ どうしようもない
• intolerable; unbearable - archaism

noun:

• female bedmate (whose body is likened to a fleshy cushion) - archaism

expression / noun:

• useless messenger; doing only as one is told; fool's errand - idiom

expression:

• it cannot be helped; there is no other way

suffix noun / noun:

• rise; increase; ascent Antonym: 下がり

noun:

• income; proceeds; return; profit; crop yield
• freshly-drawn green tea (esp. in sushi shops) - abbreviation ➜ 上がり花
• completion; stop; finish
• end result (e.g. of crafts like painting, pottery, etc.); how something comes out

suffix / ~の noun:

• after (rain, illness, etc.)
• ex- (e.g. ex-bureaucrat)

~の noun:

• northbound

noun:

• the way of the world in our time; the frame of mind of the people nowadays - four character idiom

expression / ichidan verb:

• to make the most of the present; to live for the moment; to seize the day

adverb:

• between the waves; in the waves; on the waves; behind the waves; beneath the waves ➜ 波間【なみま】

noun:

• the (fast) pace at which life passes, and thus the nearness of death; promptitude of the changes of the times - four character idiom

noun:

• land-tax rate during the Edo period (the government took 60 percent of the year's rice crop and the farmers kept 40 percent) - four character idiom

noun:

• Harvest festival held on the night of the tenth day of the tenth month (to send the rice paddy gods back to the mountains after harvest)

noun:

• Dynastic period (the Nara period and esp. the Heian period, characterized by the rule of the emperor as opposed to shogunate) ➜ 武家時代

noun:

• an ideal topography for the four Taoist gods, with a river in the east, a broad avenue in the west, a basin in the south, and a hill in the north - four character idiom

noun:

• land-tax rate during the Edo period, in which the government took 70 percent of the year's crop and the farmers kept 30 percent - four character idiom