adverb / ~する noun:

• sound of something thick and soft being pierced by something sharp and hard - onomatopoeia
• containing sullen anger or discontent

~と adverb / adverb:

• tall and thin; long and thin; lanky; spindly; gangly - onomatopoeia

noun:

• dogs and cats; pets
• something trivial; worthless thing - idiom

noun:

• Minister of Internal Affairs and Communications ➜ 総務大臣

noun:

• short and round sleeves of a kimono

expression:

• bread and circuses

noun:

• urine and excrement - archaism

noun:

• The Treaty of Amity and Commerce (July 29, 1858); Japan-US Friendship and Trade Treaty

noun:

• heat and humidity

noun:

• functionary charged with training and organizing young wrestlers - Sumo term

noun:

• cake made from pounded horse chestnuts and mochi rice

noun:

• box-and-whisker plot; box-and-whisker diagram; box plot; boxplot - Mathematics term

adjectival noun / noun:

• short and small Antonym: 長大

noun:

• being inseparable as a form and its shadow; a person's deed mirrors the good or evil of his mind; husband and wife being never apart - four character idiom

noun:

• refreshing breeze and the bright moon; a beautiful nocturnal scene with a full moon - four character idiom

noun:

• barbarians to the east and to the west (from the perspective of old China) - four character idiom

noun / ~する noun:

• evildoers being rampant and roaming at will - four character idiom

noun:

• special leather belt used in ceremonial court dress, covered in black lacquer and decorated with stones and jewels ➜ 石帯

noun / ~する noun:

• funerals and festivals

noun:

• simple and plain; staightforward - four character idiom

noun:

• three public corporations (Japan National Railways, Japan Monopoly Corporation, and Nippon Telegraph and Telephone) and five government enterprises (postal services, mintage, printing, management of state-owned forests/fields, and monopolization of alcohol)

noun:

• Edo-period form of torture in which criminals were stuffed into straw bags with their heads exposed, piled together, and whipped (commonly used on Christians)

expression / godan ~る verb:

• to take the ayes and noes

noun:

• land-tax rate during the Edo period, in which the government took 70 percent of the year's crop and the farmers kept 30 percent - four character idiom

noun:

• purificatory font at shrines and temples
• kitchen
• cupboard
• room adjacent to a tea ceremony room, where utensils are washed
• vendor of drinking water
• building for taking refuge during a flood