noun:

• unity of body and spirit - four character idiom

noun:

• errors and omissions

noun:

• damage and ill-treatment

noun:

• ginkgo-leaf top-knot worn by makuuchi and juryo division wrestlers - Sumo term ➜ 大銀杏

noun:

• steward in charge of the affairs of nobles of the third rank and higher (from the middle of the Heian period)
• administrative position (Kamakura and Muromachi periods) ➜ 政所

noun:

• break between the light meal and the actual serving of tea (during a formal tea ceremony)

godan ~る verb / intransitive verb:

• to blow harder and harder

noun:

• soup of dumplings filled with walnuts and brown sugar, boiled together with vegetables, tofu, etc. - Food term

noun:

• constantly changing phase and being highly unpredictable - four character idiom

noun:

• phrases and clauses

noun:

• tall and lean figure - four character idiom

noun:

• sore loser stubbornly refusing to admit being wrong and adhering to the far-fetched argument - four character idiom

noun:

• high and low, and rich and poor - four character idiom

noun / ~する noun:

• diving under cover and hiding

noun:

• event where schoolchildren wash their inkstones, brushes and desks the night before Tanabata to pray for success in their studies - obscure term ➜ 七夕

noun:

• win by discarding nothing but terminal and honor tiles in an otherwise drawn round - Mahjong term

conjunction:

• even so; though that may be

noun / ~する noun:

• song and dance performed as an offering to the gods ➜ 神楽

noun:

• pastry made of dough pulled into various shapes and fried - Food term

noun:

• method of Buddhist study and practice that is based in meditative concentration; meditative methods used in Zen Buddhism - Buddhism term

adjectival noun / noun:

• round and cute (esp. eyes); rotund

noun:

• Five Dynasties and Ten Kingdoms (in Chinese history)

expression / godan ~る verb:

• to say the same thing over and over again; to talk until one is blue in the face

~たる adjective / ~と adverb:

• vast and blue (e.g. ocean)
• dusky; shadowy

expression:

• here and there; everywhere