noun:

• wrestler's belt used in a bout - Sumo term

noun:

• pushing against the wooden pole in practice - Sumo term

noun:

• placing a meal in front of one

godan ~る verb / intransitive verb:

• to demonstrate (e.g. in the streets)

noun:

• order in which songs, etc. are played

noun / ~する noun:

• (things) being complete, tranquil, and in harmony - four character idiom

noun:

• being generous, benevolent and magnanimous in disposition - four character idiom

noun / adjectival noun:

• having many difficulties in store; grim prospects - four character idiom

noun / ~する noun:

• shouting in a thunderous voice; blustering out - four character idiom

expression:

• continued luck in the fortunes of war - four character idiom

expression:

• "There is a huge markup in medicines." - four character idiom

adverb:

• piled up high; in a heap ➜ 堆い

noun:

• life in a foreign country; living abroad

noun:

• laxity in official discipline; civil service corruption - four character idiom

noun:

• lack of (slackness in) military discipline; demoralization - four character idiom

noun:

• unprecedented in history; unheard-of; epoch-making - four character idiom

noun:

• match held in front of the Emperor - Sumo term

noun / adjectival noun:

• persuasiveness; skilled in the art of persuasion - four character idiom

noun / ~の noun:

• peerless (unparalleled, matchless, unequaled) in the country - four character idiom

noun:

• game held with the Emperor in attendance

noun:

• living in seclusion; retired from the world - four character idiom

noun / adjectival noun / ~の noun:

• freely adaptable, very flexible, nimble in adaptation - four character idiom

noun:

• in and around the city of Kyoto - four character idiom

expression:

• jokingly; in the form of a joke

noun:

• gardening; puttering around in the garden