noun:

• paper-covered folded fan used in noh and storytelling
• paper fan used in slapstick comedy ［はりせん］ ➜ ハリセン

expression / noun:

• bending from the hips with the legs straight and head nearly to the ground; deep forward bow

noun:

• the five home provinces and seven districts of ancient Japan ➜ 五畿・七道

noun:

• overly-detailed and tedious conversation; monotonous talk

expression / godan ~く verb:

• to breathe in and breathe out

~たる adjective / adjectival noun / ~の noun:

• luxurious and gorgeous; magnificent - four character idiom

expression:

• hard to understand; Byzantine fashion

noun:

• fishing and hunting

noun:

• careful and thorough person
• older male in an homosexual relationship ［ねんじゃ］ ➜ 若衆【わかしゅ】

noun:

• two guilty parties tried and punished together

noun:

• use and benefits

noun:

• rising and falling; going up and down ➜ 上り下り

expression:

• first and second series

expression:

• one cannot have pain without pleasure, and one cannot have pleasure without pain

noun:

• false arrest and imprisonment; illegal arrest and confinement

noun:

• treatment offered at beauty salons, etc. usually including hair care, scalp care and head massage - From English "head spa"
• salon offering hair care, scalp care, etc.

noun:

• creation of heaven and earth - four character idiom

adjectival noun / noun:

• free and easy; open and natural; not fastidious - four character idiom

noun:

• vain dream of wealth and splendour (splendor)

noun / ~する noun:

• conjectures and surmises; speculation; giving one's imagination full play without any ground - four character idiom

noun:

• sun and moon - abbreviation ➜ 金烏玉兎
• time; the years; the months

noun:

• same race and same script - four character idiom

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