noun:

• old Japanese system of weights and measures

noun:

• postcards with the bottom third of the front side reserved for an advertisement, and sold at a lower cost than regular postcards

expression:

• soft and fair goes far; willows are weak, yet they bind other wood - proverb

noun:

• young men who are not competitive as in the traditional male stereotype, including in the avid pursuit of money and sex, and who may also be kind, co-operative and family-oriented - abbreviation ➜ 草食系男子
• men who pretend they aren't interested in women; spineless males; men with no balls - abbreviation - slang

noun:

• Europeans and Americans; Westerners

noun:

• three-part joke, where the first two parts are similar and mundane, while the third is the punchline (e.g. How do you get to my place? Go down to the corner, turn left, and get lost.); rule of three (in comedy writing) ➜ 落ち【おち】

noun / ~する noun:

• lumping similar things together and giving the group a collective name; collective name; generic term ➜ 総称

noun:

• vertical take off and landing; VTOL

expression:

• to do something without any particular intention or mind to do so

ichidan verb:

• to draw swords and face off

expression / adverb:

• (hurrying along) falling and stumbling; falling all over oneself

noun:

• Near and Middle East

noun:

• past, present and future existences - Buddhism term
• three generations ［さんぜ］

noun:

• three-party coalition: Jimintou, Jiyuutou and Koumeitou - abbreviation

noun:

• era during early 1900s dominated by the grand champions Hitachiyama and Umegatani II - Sumo term

noun / ~する noun:

• waxing and waning; phases of moon

noun:

• woman so glamorous as to bring ruin to a country (castle) as its king (lord) is captivated by her beauty; femme fatale - four character idiom ➜ 傾国傾城

noun:

• dried boiled rice used mainly as provisions of samurai troops and travelers (travellers)

noun / ~する noun:

• checking and receiving (an invoice, goods, etc.); receipt

~の noun / adjectival noun / noun:

• ignorant and illiterate; uneducated and illiterate; uneducated and illiterate person - sensitive - four character idiom

noun / ~の noun:

• born between January 1st and April 1st (school entrance date) ➜ 遅生まれ

adverb:

• so; like that; in that way - archaism

noun:

• one's philosophy of making, saving, and spending money - four character idiom

noun / adjectival noun / ~の noun:

• pure and unadulterated; pure in heart; simplehearted - four character idiom

noun:

• man who is neither overly aggressive nor overly passive in pursuing sex and riches; omnivore [literal]