noun:

• 4 bales on the edge of the ring set slightly back - Sumo term

noun:

• wrestling performed in the presence of the empress or crown prince - Sumo term

noun:

• (nights of) fun, food, and drink; bright-light district; nightlife district - four character idiom

noun:

• beside oneself with joy; in raptures; in an ecstasy of delight - four character idiom

noun:

• yakyuken; strip version of rock, paper, scissors (similar to strip poker)

noun:

• Avici hell (the eighth and most painful of the eight hells) - Buddhism term

adjectival noun / ~の noun / ~たる adjective / ~と adverb / noun:

• rising above the trivia of life and remaining calm and selfless - archaism - four character idiom

noun:

• Hunmin-jongum; the Hankul (Hangul) alphabet (of Korea); the Onmun (Enmun) - four character idiom

noun:

• huge harvest (of the five grains); bumper crop; abundant crop - four character idiom

noun:

• the friendly atmosphere of the traditional commercial and working-class neighborhoods - four character idiom

expression:

• Life and death are the two faces of the same coin - four character idiom

noun:

• the typhoon Ginza; the area (of Japan) where typhoons frequently pass - four character idiom

adverbial noun:

• upon arrival of an item (items); as soon as one arrives - four character idiom

noun:

• government (public policy) focusing on the construction of public (community) buildings - often used to criticise wasteful spending

noun:

• man of perennial youth; man who never loses his youthful vigor - four character idiom

noun:

• stink of blood or meat; meat eating barbarian (i.e. Westerner)

ichidan verb / intransitive verb:

• to look old; to appear mature (e.g. of children)

noun:

• (fictional) fusion of human and animal; therianthrope; furry; human beast

noun:

• stationed in France; resident to France (e.g. of Ambassadors, etc.)

noun:

• Ryukyu Islands; southern chain of the Nansei Islands comprising Okinawa Prefecture ➜ 南西諸島

noun:

• Mandala of the Two Realms; Womb Realm and Matrix Realm Mandalas - Buddhism term ➜ 胎蔵界曼荼羅【たいぞうかいまんだら】・金剛界曼荼羅【こんごうかいまんだら】

expression:

• two halves of the whole; two wheels on which everything rolls

noun:

• Empire of Japan (Japan's official name under the Meiji Constitution)

noun:

• checkmark; mark in the shape of the katakana "re"

noun:

• groove in the body of wooden plane which holds the blade