noun:

• Minister of Health, Labour and Welfare

noun:

• one's daughter and heiress

noun:

• storm and stress; Sturm und Drang - four character idiom

noun:

• syncretism of Shinto and Buddhism

noun:

• awareness that somebody will be hard to deal with; awareness that one is not good at something; (feeling) not up to doing something

noun:

• looking up and down, from heaven to earth (having nothing to be ashamed of); swearing by Heaven and Earth (having done nothing to be ashamed of) - four character idiom

noun:

• harmony, respect, purity and tranquility; the four most important elements of the tea ceremony - four character idiom

noun:

• (in hanafuda) a collection of the rain and three non-rain light cards ➜ 花札

noun:

• Japan and Italy; Japanese-Italian

noun:

• eating the first meal of soft rice (himeii) after the traditional hard rice of New Year (kowaii) ➜ 強飯・姫飯
• first intercourse of the New Year
• loss of virginity; loss of maidenhead - slang

~する verb (spec.) / intransitive verb:

• to be hard pressed; to be at a loss
• to become poor; to be reduced to poverty

noun:

• plug and play - IT term

noun / ~する noun:

• top and bottom; up and down; high and low; above and below; upper and lower ends

noun:

• upper and lower classes; ruler and ruled; the government and the people ［しょうか］

adjectival noun:

• rock hard; stiff and unyielding (personality)

noun:

• clangor

noun:

• hard ball to hit; bad pitch

noun:

• law of cause and effect; principle of causality

noun:

• buying and selling at auction; auction ➜ 相対売買

noun:

• the world of hungry spirits and the world of animals; three evil worlds hell - abbreviation - Buddhism term ➜ 三悪道【さんあくどう】
• three evils (prostitution, drugs and venereal diseases) ［さんあく］

noun / ~する noun:

• sprinkling salt on a raw vegetable and rubbing it in - Food term ➜ 揉む【もむ】

adjectival noun / noun:

• hard to reach place; remote place

~と adverb:

• up and down; lightly; nimbly; moving in small leaps as a frog or rabbit - onomatopoeia
• casually; (strolling about) without a care - onomatopoeia ➜ ひょいひょい

expression:

• here and there - From French "çà et là"

noun:

• hand, foot and mouth disease; HFMD

noun:

• half awake and half asleep - four character idiom

noun:

• monks and nuns