expression:

• one who experiences a chronic ailment takes better care of his health and lives longer - four character idiom

noun / ~する noun:

• dovetail joint; swallowtail joint

noun:

• sitting between the host and guest of honour at a drinking party (honor); companion

noun:

• salt and miso ［塩噌］
• salt and vinegar ［塩酢］
• everyday food - archaism

noun:

• war and peace; peace

noun:

• good words and good deeds

noun:

• first and final offer in labor-management negotiations - four character idiom

noun:

• skin and bones

noun:

• metre or rhythm in Chinese and Japanese traditional music

noun:

• General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade; GATT ➜ 関税貿易一般協定

noun:

• construction of a new shrine and transfer of the enshrined object from the old to the new, occurring at a regular, preordained time

noun:

• area of the Edo castle where the shogun would work and spend his daily life

noun:

• gold and jewels; precious object

noun:

• worthless painting and writing

noun:

• coarseness and fineness; sparse or dense (growth)

noun:

• bamboo shoots boiled, sliced, fermented, dried or preserved in salt, then soaked in hot water and sea salt - From Chinese "mianma" ➜ 支那竹

noun:

• maid working for both the living quarter and kitchen

noun:

• unification of the written and spoken forms of a language - four character idiom

expression:

• of soup and love, the first is the best; one's first spouse tends to be better than any subsequent spouse - proverb

noun / adjectival noun:

• having a gentle and sincere personality - four character idiom

noun:

• distinctive body odor (odour) of the middle-aged and elderly (caused by the chemical nonenal) ➜ ノネナール

noun:

• small and simple home

ichidan verb:

• to cut and insert

noun:

• dogs and horses; one's humble self

noun:

• rise and fall; prosperity and decline; vicissitudes - four character idiom