noun:

• fund-raising tournaments of Edo period - four character idiom - Sumo term

expression / godan ~く verb:

• to be settled; to be brought to an end - idiom ➜ けり

noun:

• useless book learning; knowing the theory but being unable to put it into practice; practising swimming on a tatami mat [literal] - idiom - humorous term

adjectival noun / ~の noun / noun:

• peerless; unequalled; unequaled - four character idiom ➜ 天下無双・天下無比

noun:

• the Four Books and Five Classics of Confucianism; the Nine Chinese Classics - four character idiom

noun / ~する noun:

• intermingling of public policy with private interest; mixing up official business with personal affairs - four character idiom

noun:

• lechery; lewdness - four character idiom
• greed

noun:

• underhand character; thievish nature - four character idiom

noun:

• predatory nature; rapacious disposition - four character idiom

noun:

• thievish nature (character); thieving heart; cunning and greedy character - four character idiom

noun:

• spirit of true craftsman; (craftsman's) pride in his work - four character idiom

noun / ~の noun:

• ancestral; hereditary; generation after generation; passing from father to son - four character idiom

adjectival noun:

• beyond one's means or position - four character idiom ➜ 身分不相応

noun:

• cemetery for those who left no relatives behind; potter's field - four character idiom

expression:

• thinking the sun shines out of someone's eyes; being the apple of one's eye; loving someone dearly - idiom

expression / godan ~く verb:

• to not know what to do with; to be at a loss with; to have difficulty with; to be put out - idiom

expression / ichidan verb:

• to take advantage (e.g. of a weak situation); to size up (e.g. customer when setting a high price) - from palanquin bearers gauging how weary a traveler's feet are, and raising the price accordingly - idiom

noun:

• condolence; mourning; sorrow; lamentation - four character idiom

expression:

• bad news traveling fast; ill news spreading like wildfire - four character idiom

noun / adjectival noun:

• luxurious and gorgeous; splendid; dazzling - four character idiom

noun:

• gathering dark clouds; being under the shadow of - four character idiom

noun:

• using poisonous medication to control poison; fighting evil with evil; fighting fire with fire - four character idiom

noun:

• taxing one's ingenuity in devising something; agonizing over designing or creating something; making strenuous efforts to devise good ways and means to do something - four character idiom

noun:

• revolution (change of dynasty) decreed by Heaven when the incumbent emperor is found lacking in moral virtue (old Chinese political thought) - four character idiom

noun:

• heretical doctrine (thought, faith) - four character idiom