noun:

• red poetry ribbon card (in hanafuda) ➜ 花札
• the three red poetry ribbon cards (high-scoring combination in hanafuda)

noun / ~の noun:

• United States and North Korea; American-North Korean

noun / ~する noun:

• catching and killing

noun:

• running and cursive scripts

noun:

• red-masked and black-masked gods (folk belief of the Yaeyama Islands); harvest festival celebrating these gods (held in the 6th lunar month)

noun:

• in every area and on every level

noun:

• vegetable fats and oils

expression:

• speak of the devil and he shall appear; speak rumours of someone and they shall appear [literal] - proverb

noun:

• rank and order of merit

noun:

• mathematical and physical sciences

noun:

• oneself and others

noun:

• land-tax system during the Edo period under which the government took 40% of the year's crop and the farmers kept 60% - archaism - four character idiom

noun:

• rice covered with beef and vegetables ➜ 牛丼

noun:

• rice cooker and warmer

noun:

• being far away across mountains and rivers - four character idiom

noun:

• being imaginative and creative; creative originality - four character idiom

noun:

• kindness and affection; love

noun:

• seafood and vegetables cooked sukiyaki style

noun:

• disparity (of income, pensions, etc.) between public and private employees - four character idiom

noun:

• Olympics and Paralympics - abbreviation ➜ オリンピック・パラリンピック

noun:

• red light (e.g. on police cars)

noun:

• cause and effect; causality

noun:

• (contemporary) customs and behavior; the picture of people's life in the contemporary world - four character idiom

godan ~る verb:

• to taste and know

noun:

• priests and laymen