noun:

• (the two persons' sides) being evenly matched in ability - four character idiom

noun:

• (going) the pure love stories route (in movie making) - four character idiom

noun:

• avid desire; drooling over (something); watering at the mouth - four character idiom

noun:

• all the worldly (mundane) matters; everything in this world - four character idiom

noun:

• uprising (during the Muromachi period) demanding debt cancellation orders - four character idiom

expression / interjection:

• Homage to the Three Jewels (Buddha, Dharma and Sangha) - Buddhism term ➜ 三宝【さんぼう】

noun:

• krill; euphasiid (any species in the family Euphausiacea)

noun:

• Hydrangeaceae; family comprising the hortensias (hydrangeas) ➜ 紫陽花

noun:

• question based on rearranging (words) into the correct order

ichidan verb / transitive:

• to get on the wrong vehicle (bus, train, etc.)

adverb / ~の noun:

• the same as it was long ago; unchanged; traditional

noun:

• deconstruction (as in the term coined by Jacques Derrida)

~と adverb:

• gently and clearly shining (like the sun in springtime) - onomatopoeia

noun:

• the rules according to which posthumous names are assigned

expression / adverb:

• for the first time in one's life

noun / ~する noun:

• women picking up men (on the street) - from 逆+ナンパ - slang

noun:

• wake; vigil (that does not last the full night) ➜ 通夜

noun / ~の noun:

• pia mater (membranes surrounding the brain and spinal cord)

adverb:

• the same as something was reputed to be

noun:

• putting on weight over the New Year's holidays

noun:

• characters used by Western civilization (esp. the Latin alphabet) - obscure term ➜ ローマ字

noun or verb acting prenominally:

• expected to arrive (occur) in the near future

noun:

• gharial; gavial (large crocodilian found on the Indian subcontinent) - From French

expression:

• there is no leisure for the poor - proverb

noun:

• self deprecating first person pronoun used by the elderly - archaism - male language