noun:

• elegant appreciation of nature through artistic pursuits such as poetry, painting and calligraphy - four character idiom

noun:

• (with) unkempt hair and dirty face; being indifferent to one's personal appearance - four character idiom

noun:

• style of temple gate featuring four supporting pillars and a gabled roof

noun:

• dogcatcher; person who used to catch dogs and execute them for rabies prevention - slang

noun:

• ryūsha; spherical part of a pagoda finial between the hōju and suien

noun:

• beautiful white-skinned lady (usu. wrt to freckle removal and skin whitening products)

adjectival noun:

• restless; on edge (and unable to concentrate); distracted

adverb:

• for some reason - of an emotional or psychological state ➜ そぞろに

noun:

• crab meat mixed with vegetables and egg yolk, steamed inside its shell

noun:

• Vaishya; Vaisya (member of India's merchant-and-farmer caste)

noun:

• crushed sesame seeds boiled in water and chilled like tofu

noun:

• soup of soumen noodles and various ingredients in a soy sauce broth

noun:

• condiment paste made from yuzu zest and chili peppers (chile) - Food term

noun / ~する noun:

• ding-dong dash (ringing a doorbell and running away)

noun:

• legless lizard (esp. Anguidae spp., incl. glass lizards and slow worms)

noun:

• Kshitigarbha (bodhisattva who looks over children, travellers and the underworld) (travelers); Ksitigarbha; Jizo ➜ 菩薩

noun:

• Great Northern War (Sweden vs. Russia, Poland, Denmark, Saxony and Hanover: 1700-1721)

noun:

• hereditary title (used in ancient Japan to denote rank and political standing)
• clan - archaism

expression:

• wives and tatami are best when they're new

noun:

• waiting for the sun (traditional all-night event of worship and neighbourhood fellowship) ➜ 月待ち【つきまち】

noun:

• pre-harvest estimate of a rice field's yield and selling price

noun:

• Japanese, Chinese and Western (e.g. when referring to food styles available, etc.)

noun:

• klesha (polluting thoughts such as greed, hatred and delusion, which result in suffering) - Buddhism term ➜ 煩悩

expression:

• full up - colloquialism
• to have had enough of something (both good and bad nuance)

noun:

• being-for-others (philosophical term used by Hegel and Sartre (etre-en-soi))

noun:

• whipping, stone placement, and shrimp-tie bondage (three forms of Edo-period torture) ➜ 海老責め・石抱き・鞭打ち