noun:

• marshes and lakes

expression:

• home-and-away

noun / ~する noun:

• act of praying or performing an incantation so that a bad dream does not come true

noun:

• light-coloured ceramic cooking pan with a lid and short spout
• aluminum saucepan with a handle (usu. wooden) and often with snowflake-style embossed pattern (aluminium) - usu. 雪平鍋

noun:

• bamboo shoots boiled, sliced, fermented, dried or preserved in salt, then soaked in hot water and sea salt - sensitive ➜ 麺媽

noun:

• with an open and calm mind; with no preconceived notions; without reserve; frank; candid - four character idiom

~の noun / ~と adverb:

• higher and higher

noun:

• dilly-dallying and temporizing (temporising) - four character idiom

noun:

• gentle and round face; cheerful face; face like the Boddhisattva Jizo [literal] ➜ 地蔵

noun / ~する noun:

• vomiting and diarrhea (diarrhoea)

noun:

• valuing one's body and life; holding one's life dear - four character idiom

noun:

• dish of vegetables, konnyaku, etc. simmered in soy sauce and water until the liquid is almost gone - Food term

noun:

• personal appearance and physique; person's appearance and physique giving a feeling of respectable character - four character idiom

~たる adjective / ~と adverb:

• glasses and plates being scattered about after a party or banquet; articles lying about in a jumble - archaism - four character idiom

noun:

• young and inexperienced person

noun:

• knowledgeable and experienced person

noun:

• meeting place for calligraphers and painters - archaism

noun:

• archery, horsemanship, spearsmanship, and swordsmanship; martial arts in general - four character idiom

noun / adjectival noun:

• bold and boorish - four character idiom

noun:

• struggling through wind and rain; undergoing hardships - four character idiom

noun:

• the unity of knowledge and virtue - four character idiom

noun:

• teapot-like object made typically of lacquerware and used to pour hot and cold liquids
• basin of water with two handles on either side used for washing one's face or hands ➜ 盥

noun:

• (university) club that exists for the purpose of getting women drunk and taking advantage of them

noun:

• climate and natural features (of a region) - four character idiom

noun:

• free markets and open guilds (policy enacted by daimyo in the Azuchimomoyama Period (1573-1598) that weakened the strict regulations surrounding business establishment in market places and important cities, allowing new businesses to open in Joka-machi market places)