noun:

• coarseness and fineness; sparse or dense (growth)

~たる adjective / ~と adverb:

• triumphant; exultant; in high and proud spirits ➜ 意気揚々

noun:

• beef boiled with soy sauce, ginger and sugar

noun / ~する noun:

• looking right and left or all about; vacillation - four character idiom

noun:

• place of assemblage for the bold and ambitious

noun:

• chaff and bran; plain food ➜ 糟糠の妻
• worthless thing; trifle - archaism

noun:

• thin strips of raw fish and squid

noun:

• years of (someone's) birth and death

noun:

• boiled and half-dried bonito

noun:

• plane able to make short takeoffs and landings

noun:

• nature's beauty (cool breeze and bright moon)

noun:

• novel depicting customs and manners of the day - four character idiom

noun:

• being versed in the literary and military arts

noun:

• jankyu; combination of Japanese pinball and mahjong

noun:

• kabuki performance in commemoration of Danjuro and Kikugoro

noun:

• policy of increasing national prosperity and military power

noun:

• rakshasa; man-eating demon in Hinduism and Buddhism - From Sanskrit "rākṣasa"

noun:

• coach announcing the winner and winning technique - Sumo term

noun / ~する noun:

• dismantling an historic building and reconstructing it elsewhere

ichidan verb / intransitive verb:

• to become decrepit and ugly with age

noun:

• Nuclear and Industrial Safety Agency; NISA

noun:

• the principle of honorable death and no surrender - four character idiom

noun / adjectival noun:

• appearing and disappearing at will; elusive; phantom-like - four character idiom

noun / ~の noun:

• snobbery; snobbishness; philistinism; vulgar and ostentatious nature (disposition) - four character idiom

noun:

• competitive lobbying; rivalry in campaigning (for and against) - four character idiom