noun:

• Minister of Health, Labour and Welfare

noun:

• red dragon tile - abbreviation - Mahjong term ➜ 紅中
• winning hand with a pung (or kong) of red dragon tiles - Mahjong term

noun:

• one's daughter and heiress

noun:

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

noun:

• red-tailed black shark (Epalzeorhynchos bicolor)

noun:

• syncretism of Shinto and Buddhism

noun:

• Red Turban Rebellion (China, 1351-1366 CE)

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:

• 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］

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】

~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

godan ~す verb:

• to speak slowly and quietly

noun:

• geisha and prostitutes ➜ 芸妓・娼妓

noun:

• katana and wakizashi