noun:

• early Edo-period book written entirely in kana or in a mixture of kana and kanji (primarily intended for women and children) - four character idiom

noun:

• kana literature; works written in kana in the Heian period - four character idiom

noun:

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

noun:

• dandy; peacock; early-17th-century equivalent of present-day yakuza; Edo-period eccentric who attracted public attention with their eye-catching clothes, peculiar hairstyle, and weird behavior - four character idiom

noun / ~する noun:

• downward adjustment; downward revision - four character idiom

noun:

• college student who is merely marking time to get into a better college - four character idiom

noun:

• gifted young person who shows much promise; unrecognized genius; great person whose talent is hidden under a bushel - four character idiom

noun:

• Buddhist services in memory of those drowned in a river; offering to suffering spirits at the river - four character idiom

noun / adjectival noun:

• simple, easy, and convenient - four character idiom

noun:

• life in natural setting, free from worldly cares - four character idiom

noun:

• laxity in official discipline; civil service corruption - four character idiom

noun:

• the concerned government agencies; the ministries and agencies that are relevant to the matter at hand; the relevant authorities - four character idiom

noun:

• the authorities concerned; the competent authorities - four character idiom

noun / adjectival noun:

• clear and concise - four character idiom

noun / adjectival noun:

• being of very robust health - four character idiom

noun:

• stubborn (obstinate) father; pig-headed old man - four character idiom

noun:

• trials and tribulations; adversities; suffering hardships and troubles - four character idiom

noun:

• erotic novel; amorous novel; pornographic novel - four character idiom

noun:

• forgetting one's serious objectives by becoming engrossed in trivial pursuits; being distracted by trivial objects and losing sight of one's original goal - four character idiom

noun:

• disparity (of income, pensions, etc.) between public and private employees - four character idiom

noun / adjectival noun:

• simple, plain, and artless; clear, concise, and unaffected - four character idiom

noun / adjectival noun:

• simple and plain; frank, direct and unambivalent; straightforward - four character idiom

noun:

• one's face turning red; with a flush on one's face - four character idiom

noun / ~の noun:

• one's face turning pale (ashen); the color being drained from one's face - four character idiom

noun:

• idiomatic expression; idiom - four character idiom