noun:

• walking with bent knees to strengthen thighs and improve balance - Sumo term

noun:

• era during 1960s dominated by grand champions Taiho and Kashiwado - Sumo term ➜ 柏鵬時代

noun:

• era during 1960s dominated by grand champions Taiho and Kashiwado - Sumo term

noun:

• half tide (e.g. midway between spring and neap tides)

~たる adjective / ~と adverb:

• memories of the past events (being, becoming) far and distant - archaism - four character idiom ➜ 往事茫々

noun:

• (being unable to control) one's worldly desires and passions - four character idiom

expression:

• beauty and fortune seldom go together; the beautiful die young - four character idiom

noun:

• medicine left by a salesman, and paid for when used

noun:

• many mountains and rivers; a great distance to travel - four character idiom

noun / adjectival noun:

• cruel and heartless; merciless; implacable; cold-blooded - four character idiom

noun:

• disparity (of income, pensions, etc.) between public and private employees - four character idiom

noun:

• ancient inscriptions of Chinese characters on oracle bones and carapaces - four character idiom ➜ 亀甲獣骨文字

noun:

• the scenery being beautiful in both sunny and rainy weather - four character idiom

noun:

• rights and wrongs; the relative merits (of a case); propriety - four character idiom

noun / adjectival noun / ~の noun:

• an infinite variety; multifarious; being extremely varied and wide-ranging - four character idiom

noun:

• starting an enterprise and (or) carrying it to final success - four character idiom

noun:

• interpreting (and using) a passage without regard to its context - four character idiom

noun:

• using mind, mouth and eyes to understand a book fully - four character idiom

noun:

• winter, night, and rainy weather; the ideal conditions for reading - four character idiom

adverb / ~と adverb:

• (dying) suddenly - onomatopoeia
• (breaking) brittly; with a snap - onomatopoeia
• softly and swellingly - onomatopoeia

noun:

• Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology; MEXT - abbreviation ➜ 文部科学省

noun:

• Japanese sweets made with glutinous rice and azuki bean paste

noun:

• ceremonial sake decanter with a spout and semicircular handle

noun:

• Woodstock Music and Art Festival (1969)

noun:

• word-hunting; search for and censorship of politically incorrect words