noun:

• church and state

noun:

• half asleep and half awake - four character idiom

noun:

• hard patch - IT term

noun:

• chest and stomach; one's innermost being

noun:

• confections adopted from Portugal, Spain, etc. during the Muromachi period and since Japanized ➜ カステラ・ボーロ・コンペイトー

noun:

• Edo-period school of Chinese medicine based on pre-Jin and Yuan teachings ➜ 後世方

noun / ~する noun:

• bending and stretching

expression / noun:

• cursing ritual where one visits a shrine at 2 in the morning and nails a doll representing a person to a tree, praying for said person's death ➜ 丑の刻参り

noun:

• talent and accomplishments; wisdom and works

expression / godan ~む verb:

• never being satisfied with what one gets, and always wanting more; giving someone an inch and having them take a mile; taking Gansu only to want Sichuan [literal] - idiom

noun:

• court nobles and state ministers

noun:

• place for ritual cleansing of hands and mouth with water when visiting shrines

noun:

• rump and aitchbone meat ➜ ランプ・イチボ

noun:

• success and failure

noun / ~する noun:

• separate areas for smokers and non-smokers
• separating smoking from non-smoking

noun:

• Minister of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology ➜ 文部科学大臣

noun:

• Japan and Norway

noun / ~する noun:

• dividing and uniting

noun:

• civil engineering and construction

noun:

• hard-to-get-into university; elite university; highly-selective university

noun:

• exchange and consolidation (of lands)

noun:

• cops and robbers (hide-and-seek game) - abbr. of 警察と泥棒 or 刑事と泥棒

noun:

• all health and happiness

noun / adjectival noun / ~の noun:

• with an open and calm mind; without reserve; with utmost candor; with no preconceived notions - four character idiom

noun:

• restaurants and geisha establishments - archaism