noun:

• going concern; stocks and all; goods and furniture included

noun:

• high and low; (people of) all ranks and classes - four character idiom

noun:

• public music and dancing; performance of song and dance entertainment - four character idiom

noun / adjectival noun:

• wide knowledge and versatile talents; profound learning and varied attainments - four character idiom

noun:

• rich and poor, high and low; people of all ranks - four character idiom

noun / ~する noun:

• being protean and elusive; appear and disappear like a phantom - four character idiom

noun:

• seafood and vegetables cooked sukiyaki style and served with udon ➜ 魚すき

noun:

• large and small buildings, esp. shrines and temples - archaism

noun:

• ritual singing and dancing gathering of young men and women - archaism ➜ 歌垣

noun:

• God and Buddha; Gods and Buddhas; one's guardian angel

noun / ~の noun / suffix noun:

• all; everything; the whole; lock, stock, and barrel

adverbial noun:

• absolutely not (with negative); without exception; entirely not

noun / ~する noun:

• being in dire distress; being hard put to it - four character idiom
• the four and eight kinds of suffering - Buddhism term ➜ 四苦・八苦

noun:

• begging Zen priest of the Fuke sect (wearing a sedge hood and playing a shakuhachi flute)

noun / ~の noun:

• once in a lifetime; the first and last occurrence (event, experience) of one's lifetime - four character idiom

noun:

• (lying on one's belly and) basking in the sun; sunbathing (e.g. on a beach)

noun:

• cramschool (for boys and girls who wish to go on to the next stage of education)

noun / ~の noun:

• initiative taken by bureaucrats in the drafting of government policies and bills (rather than by politicians) - four character idiom

noun:

• spring flowers and the autumn moon; beauty of nature as it changes from season to season - four character idiom

noun:

• (university) club that exists for the purpose of getting women drunk and taking advantage of them

noun:

• ridged wooden bench used in SM practices (and in the Edo period for torturing female prisoners)

noun:

• the five elements (in Japanese philosophy: earth, water, fire, wind and void) - Buddhism term ➜ 五行【ごぎょう】
• five great wisdom kings - abbreviation - Buddhism term ➜ 五大明王

noun:

• Seven Sages of the Bamboo Grove; group of 3rd-century Qingtan scholars, writers, and musicians ➜ 清談

noun:

• points paid and received at the end of a game of mahjong based on position (rank) - Mahjong term

noun:

• Blue Sky with a White Sun; party flag and emblem of the Kuomintang (Chinese Nationalist Party)

noun:

• the whole country; the public; the world; the ruling power; having one's own way