noun:

• discrimination between right and wrong

expression:

• "laugh and grow fat" [figurative]; good fortune and happiness will come to the home of those who smile [literal] - from Chi: 打開笑門福自來 - proverb

noun:

• lower-ranking vassal in the Kamakura and Edo periods

noun:

• avalanche of earth and rocks

noun:

• arithmetic and logic unit; ALU - IT term

noun:

• organized games and activities for groups of children, old people, etc. - From English "recreation game"

noun:

• gin and lime

noun:

• seafood, etc. preserve made with mirin, ginger and soy ➜ 佃煮

noun:

• peerage and order of merit

expression / noun:

• a matter of life and death

noun:

• practice book used in jōruri and nagauta

expression / godan ~う verb:

• to wash one's face and hands
• to go to the toilet

noun:

• attitude and demeanor - four character idiom

ichidan verb:

• to use up all of one's energy and willpower; to be exhausted (and have no will to go on)

noun:

• Shinto ritual in which a shaman or priest soaks bamboo grass in boiling water and sprinkles the water on worshippers (originally a form of divination, later a purification ceremony, now primarily used to pray for good health) ➜ 巫女【みこ】

noun:

• Liberal Democratic Party and Komeito - abbreviation

noun:

• rank and file; the ranks

adjectival noun / noun:

• vast and far-reaching

noun:

• the two sects of Buddhism introduced to Japan during the Heian period (Tiantai and Shingon) and the six sects introduced during the Nara period ➜ 南都六宗

noun:

• foot-and-mouth disease; hoof-and-mouth disease

noun:

• vomit and excreta

noun:

• (system of) husband and wife retaining separate family names

noun:

• ham and eggs

noun:

• (of Chinese) pronunciation of kanji without a medial between the initial consonant and center vowel
• (of Japanese) the long "o" vowel arising from combination of the "a" and "u" sounds

noun:

• essence and fringe; beginning and ending; root and branch; means and end