expression / godan ~る verb (irregular):

• to have both the looks and the substance; to be a compassionate and just person; to be interesting and instructive - idiom

noun:

• Manchuria and Mongolia

ichidan verb:

• to gather and bundle together

noun:

• profit-and-loss arithmetic; calculating profit and loss; mercenary point of view - four character idiom

noun:

• sweet of egg yolks drawn into strands and boiled in sugar syrup (orig. from Portugal); angel hair; fios de ovos ➜ 南蛮菓子【なんばんがし】

noun / ~する noun:

• rumbling and shaking of the earth - four character idiom

noun:

• Buddhist theory of the twelve-fold chain of causation, interdependent origination and co-dependent arising (San: pratītya-samutpāda); twelve causal links - Buddhism term

noun:

• concept that all things and phenomena reflect the truth - Buddhism term

noun:

• hot rice served with tenkasu and tempura dipping sauce on top - Food term ➜ 天かす

noun / adverb:

• many months and years - archaism

noun:

• the "three noes principle" of no drive (indolence), no interest (indifference), and no sense of responsibility (irresponsibility), the term describing the temperament of the Japanese youth of the 1970s - four character idiom

noun:

• woman who played music, danced and worked as a prostitute; good-time girl - archaism

noun:

• downsizing by laying off part-time and temp. workers

expression / ichidan verb:

• to part left and right; to open out

noun:

• obtaining the respective numbers of cranes and tortoises from the total of their heads and legs; calculating the values of two unknown quantities from their unit total and the total of one of their attributes

expression / ~する noun:

• going up and down; going back and forth

noun:

• science and technology

noun:

• eloquent and skilled (worker) ➜ 口八丁・手八丁

noun:

• thin strips of raw fish and squid

noun:

• benevolence and wisdom

noun:

• being so broad-minded as to accept all sorts of things, both good and evil; being broad-minded enough to be tolerant of people of all shades - four character idiom

expression:

• sharp eyes and ears used for collecting information far and wide; having the acumen and shrewd discernment gained by widely-collected information; being well-versed on a subject; books which broaden our knowledge - four character idiom

noun:

• heaven and earth

noun:

• Minister of Economy, Trade and Industry

noun:

• dish of white and red-fleshed fish arranged next to each other