noun:

• curios and objets d'art - four character idiom

noun:

• Japan and Brazil

expression:

• you can't rely on parents and money to stay around forever; money comes and goes; so do parents - proverb

noun:

• Ministry of Land, Infrastructure, Transport and Tourism - abbreviation ➜ 国土交通省

expression / godan ~つ verb:

• passing of days and months

noun:

• ceremonial tasting of wedding cake by bride and groom - From English "first bite"

noun / ~の noun:

• click and mortar; business with both physical and online presence

noun:

• modern and contemporary art

noun:

• single crime that naturally consists of a number of incidences and is charged as only one count (e.g. habitual gambling)
• crime whose goal requires a large number of people acting together (e.g. insurrection) ➜ 集団犯罪

noun:

• separation of church and state; separation of religious ritual and government administration - four character idiom

noun:

• the good and bad

noun / adjectival noun:

• pure and innocent through and through - four character idiom

noun:

• country and western

noun / adjectival noun / ~の noun:

• upright and clean-handed; pure in heart and with a clean conscience - four character idiom

noun:

• mixture of both culture and vulgarism; mixture of both literary and colloquial (language) - four character idiom

noun:

• cheap wines and unpalatable dishes (a modest (self-deprecating) way of offering a meal to a guest) - four character idiom

noun / ~する noun:

• all things being in flux through the endless circle of birth, death, and rebirth; the circle of transmigration - four character idiom ➜ 輪廻転生

noun:

• newspaper with a lot of advertisements and delivered for free of charge - From English "free paper"

noun:

• twelve coinages minted in Japan during the Nara and Heian periods

noun:

• mochi filled with red bean paste and topped with green soy flour ➜ 餅【もち】・餡・青きな粉

noun:

• soup of soumen noodles and various ingredients in a soy sauce broth

noun:

• facility that serves meals and provides rooms for short-stay or overnight guests - abbreviation - From English "restaurant hotel" ➜ レストランホテル

noun:

• candy fashioned in human and animal forms

noun:

• past, present and future; three temporal states of existence

noun:

• drain and pool for collecting sewage, etc.