noun:

• redology; study of the novel Dream of the Red Chamber by Cao Xueqin, one of China's four great classical novels

noun:

• the real pleasure (of something); the real thrill; the true charm
• flavour of ghee; "delicious taste" [figurative] ➜ 醍醐
• Buddha's gracious teachings - Buddhism term

noun:

• Xirong; Rong; inhabitants of the extremities of China as early as the Shang dynasty (1765-1122 BCE); barbarians to the west [literal]

noun / ~する noun:

• floating and sinking; rise and fall; ebb and flow; ups and downs

noun:

• fortune and misfortune; prosperity and adversity; good and evil; weal and woe

noun:

• essence and fringe; beginning and ending; root and branch; means and end

noun:

• details; particulars; whole story; sequence of events; chronology; circumstances; how it started; how things got this way ［いきさつ・けいい］
• longitude and latitude ［けいい］
• warp and weft; warp and woof ［けいい・たてぬき・たてよこ］ - orig. meaning of けいい ➜ 縦横【たてよこ】

noun / ~の noun:

• black and white; monochrome

noun:

• good and evil; right and wrong; guilt and innocence

noun / ~する noun:

• ups and downs; bobbing up and down; rising and falling; ebbing and flowing

noun:

• rise and fall; ups and downs; waxing and waning; prosperity and decline; vicissitudes - four character idiom

noun:

• king of the hill; king of the castle; king of the mountain

noun:

• the point just before; the point of doing; the verge of happening

noun:

• simplicity and complexity; singular and plural; single and double; singles and doubles (in tennis)

noun:

• kalpa (eon, aeon) ［こう・ごう］ - Buddhism term
• ko (in go); position that allows for eternal capture and recapture of the same stones - usu. コウ - usually written using kana alone

noun:

• Nivkh (ethnic minority group of Russia, living near the Amur river and on Sakhalin)

noun:

• bai ze (mythical chinese animal able to understand human speech, having the body of a lion and eight eyes)

noun:

• nursehound (Scyliorhinus stellaris, species of catshark in the Northeast Atlantic and Mediterranean)

noun:

• black-barred surgeonfish (Acanthurus polyzona, species of tang known only from Mauritius, Réunion, Madagascar, and the Comoro Islands)

noun:

• unloading a barge
• small pieces of fried tofu
• palanquin that carried guests to and from the red light district

noun:

• time of year when television and radio replace programs (usu. spring and fall)

noun:

• archaic period of time (usu. a period of approx. two hours corresponding to one of the signs of the Chinese zodiac)
• carving; engraving; cutting; mincing ［刻］
• victory ［剋］
• strictness; cruelty

noun:

• combined liquor store and bar; combined off-license and pub (licence)
• drinking alcohol while standing in the shop

noun:

• warm sake (formerly drunk on the 9th day of the 9th month of the lunar calendar to ward off illness)

noun:

• water from the capital (Kyoto), rumored to have a whitening effect - archaism
• type of washing lotion from the end of the Edo period - archaism ➜ 化粧水

noun:

• standard motorcycle; naked bike; style of motorcycle having the engine exposed and visible