noun:

• surf fishing; rock fishing; fishing from rocks by the shore

noun:

• batten door; battened door; ledged door; strong door with crosspieces placed on the reverse side

noun:

• loess; yellow sand; bai; dust from the Yellow River region (China) ➜ 黄砂【こうさ】

adjectival noun / noun:

• kill-joy; wet-blanket; spoiling the fun

noun / ~する noun:

• collapse; crumbling; breaking down; caving in - archaism ➜ 崩壊

expression:

• to turn a deaf ear to; to not listen to; to not get the message

expression / godan ~る verb:

• to save an enemy from trouble instead of taking advantage of their weakness; to show humanity even to one's enemy; to help one's enemy in difficulty - from Uesugi Kenshin sending salt to his enemy, Takeda Shingen, when Takeda's salt supply had been cut off

adjectival noun:

• mundane; routine; everyday; unremarkable; common; day-to-day

expression:

• let me humbly say; most humbly; with all due respect

noun:

• problems that affect a period of time; hardships peculiar to an age; hard problems of the times

noun:

• wrapping paper for a present; gift wrapping paper; wrapping paper with a noshi decoration printed on it ➜ 熨斗【のし】

godan ~す verb:

• to include; to welcome (in a group); to let in - Kansai dialect ➜ 寄せる
• to bring near; to put close; to let come near - archaism

noun:

• Ten'ichijin; Nakagami; god of fortune in Onmyōdō who descends to the northeast on the 46th day of the sexagenary cycle and completes a clockwise circuit, spending five days on each cardinal point and six days on each ordinal point, returning to heaven from the north on the 30th day of the next sexagenary cycle; travelling in the direction of Ten'ichijin is considered unlucky ➜ 陰陽道・己酉・癸巳

noun:

• law enforcement authority; police authorities; the police

expression / ichidan verb:

• to demand gratitude; to make a favour of something; to remind of a favour done to someone; to emphasize the favour one has done ➜ 恩に掛ける

expression / noun:

• tempting thing; (too much of a) temptation; something that shouldn't be seen; the last thing one needs to see

noun:

• constant attendance; uninterrupted supervision; staying with someone all the time

adjectival noun / noun:

• kill-joy; wet-blanket; skeleton at the feast

noun:

• communality; community; having something in common

noun / adjectival noun:

• idle and incompetent; accomplishing nothing significant nor being capable of doing so; lacking the talent to do anything but idle away one's time - four character idiom

~たる adjective / ~と adverb:

• enjoying great popularity; receiving widespread high praise; being a great success with the public - four character idiom

expression:

• Talented people tend to be of delicate constitution; Men of genius tend to be of delicate health; Whom the gods love die young - four character idiom

noun:

• rale; rales; crackles; abnormal rattling sound in the lungs - From German "Rasselgeräusch"

noun:

• bracing oneself up to action, being inspired by something; getting down to work, putting heart and soul into it; tackling (a job) with gusto - four character idiom

noun:

• new money; nouveau riche; person who has amassed substantial wealth in his lifetime - four character idiom