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 / ~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

noun:

• battledore and shuttlecock game (played at the beginning of the year)

noun:

• officers and soldiers; soldiers

expression / ~する noun:

• floating up and sinking down; rising and falling

noun:

• meat and fish (forbidden to monks)

expression / noun:

• calls and sounds made by insects

noun / adjectival noun:

• free and uncontrolled; behaving with abandon; freewheeling - four character idiom

noun:

• fast-breeder reactor (in Fukui prefecture)

noun:

• British and American literature

noun:

• university specializing in economics and law

expression:

• like the young man who tried to walk like the Kantan people, gave up, and forgot how to walk

noun / ~する noun:

• woman or girl who acts cute by playing innocent and helpless - derogatory term - slang ➜ ぶる

noun:

• magnolia leaves grilled with miso and negi

godan ~ぐ verb / intransitive verb:

• to live fast (and recklessly) ➜ 死に急ぐ

noun:

• deserted and ruined house ➜ 廃家