noun:

• stalwart and insurgent factions

noun:

• kimono and ancient head-dress

noun:

• tax and service charge included - from 税金 and サービス - abbreviation

noun / ~する noun:

• admiration and devotion; hearty submission

noun:

• mirror-shaped mochi, usu. a pair stacked in order of size with a daidai on top, used as a New Year offering, then cut and eaten on January 11.

noun / ~する noun:

• shift away from manufacturing to an information and service-based economy - Economics term
• softening
• release (e.g. of a movie) on home video (e.g. DVD, BD, VHS)

noun:

• something broad and flat

~の noun:

• common; ordinary; plain; rank-and-file

noun:

• low-ranking employee; freshman; novice; private - abbreviation ➜ 平社員

noun / ~する noun:

• sitting across from each other and drinking together

expression:

• the Alpha and the Omega - idiom

noun / adjectival noun:

• complex and multifarious - four character idiom

noun:

• controller maintenance and diagnostic bus - IT term

noun:

• young and old

expression:

• days and nights passing by quickly; months and years flying by; Time flies - four character idiom

expression:

• act with restraint and conform to the ways of etiquette - archaism ➜ 克己復礼

noun:

• bath at a temple for the poor, sick and prisoners

noun:

• sitting across from each other and drinking together ➜ 対酌

noun:

• Grand Empress Dowager, the Empress Dowager and the Empress Consort - obscure term ➜ 三后

expression:

• the Alpha and the Omega - idiom

noun:

• careless (slipshod) and with many omissions - four character idiom

noun:

• half lap joint between parallel boards

noun / ~する noun:

• opening and shutting ➜ 開け閉て

noun:

• living-room and dining-room

noun:

• sedge hat and straw rain cape

noun:

• licensed trade between Japan and Ming-dynasty China during the Muromachi period

noun:

• fire and water