noun:

• area of a soccer pitch between the penalty area and the centre ring (of tactical importance) - Sports term - From English "vital area"

noun:

• (tiny) house about nine feet wide and 12 feet deep - four character idiom

noun:

• collecting herbs and pulling out young pine trees by the roots (annual event held on the first Day of the Rat of the New Year) - obscure term ➜ 子の日の遊び

noun:

• up and down, left and right; top and bottom, left and right - four character idiom

noun:

• being wounded in mind and body - four character idiom

expression:

• Heaven is black and earth is yellow; heaven and earth - four character idiom

expression:

• being in doubt and unable to decide; hesitation and indecision - four character idiom

adverb / ~と adverb:

• long, slender and well-proportioned - onomatopoeia
• smooth, continuous (movement) - onomatopoeia

noun:

• dish of rice, fish and vegetables

noun:

• breaking and removing frozen snow to expose the ground - obscure term

noun / ~する noun:

• following someone's example, and committing suicide

noun:

• vinegar mixed with ginger juice and soy sauce, etc. - Food term

noun:

• system that allows for the construction of highways and buildings in the same space

noun:

• tossing several items into the air and attempting to catch them all (form of street performance)
• sleight of hand; magic

expression:

• reduced to skin and bones

noun:

• abolition of feudal domains and establishment of prefectures (1871) - four character idiom

noun:

• good day for business and lawsuits (trial day) ➜ 六曜

godan ~う verb:

• to quarrel and separate

noun:

• baggy pants, worn by construction workers and juvenile delinquents - Kansai dialect ➜ ニッカーズボン

noun:

• fruit and vegetables; greengrocery

noun:

• black and white string

noun:

• now and anciently

noun:

• prohibition against hunting and fishing - four character idiom

noun:

• racketeering by interceding in civil disputes and threatening the use of violence - abbreviation ➜ 民事介入暴力

noun / ~する noun:

• guidance and supervision