noun:

• children's game in which (at least three) people stand back to back to each other and shove vigorously backwards ➜ 押しくらまんじゅう

noun:

• central government ministries and agencies

adjective:

• hard-to-forgive; intolerable; inexcusable; unpardonable

noun:

• acupuncturist and practitioner of moxibustion

noun:

• electoral system comprised of single-seat constituencies and proportionally represented multiple-seat constituencies

noun:

• three kinds of beneficial friends: straightforward, sincere, and well-informed ones (Confucius) - archaism Antonym: 三損友 ➜ 益者三友

noun / ~する noun:

• multiplication and division

noun:

• cheating on train fare by buying tickets covering only the first and last portions of the journey ➜ 煙管乗車

expression / godan ~く verb / intransitive verb:

• to walk heavily and clumsily; to lumber

noun:

• dust and ash

noun / ~する noun:

• dividing and advancing

noun:

• hard sauce

noun / ~する noun:

• fast walking; semi-jogging

expression:

• rear a tiger and court disaster - proverb

noun:

• face and eyes; look; expression; features

noun:

• quality and defects liability

noun / adjectival noun:

• cruel and heartless; merciless; implacable; cold-blooded - four character idiom

adjective:

• hard to see
• obscure; indistinct; illegible

noun:

• seller and buyer; vendor and purchaser

noun / ~する noun:

• short and fat; pudgy; stocky

noun:

• Bon and year-end festivals

noun:

• rights and wrongs; the relative merits (of a case); propriety - four character idiom

noun:

• simple and light soup taken between courses in a kaiseki meal, or during a formal tea ceremony - Food term ➜ 懐石

noun:

• pious men and women - four character idiom

noun:

• winter, night, and rainy weather; the ideal conditions for reading - four character idiom