noun:

• rice, meat and vegetable dish served in a small pot

noun:

• catching someone's attention by winking and tugging at their sleeve

noun / ~する noun:

• solidarity; banding together and working as one for a common cause - four character idiom

noun:

• ANZUS Treaty (Australia, New Zealand and the United States)

noun:

• ginkgo-leaf top-knot worn by makuuchi and juryo division wrestlers - Sumo term ➜ 大銀杏

noun:

• wrestler who keeps going up and down the rankings - Sumo term

noun:

• era during mid-1970s dominated by grand champions Wajima and Kitanoumi - Sumo term

noun:

• era during mid-1970s dominated by grand champions Wajima and Kitanoumi - Sumo term

noun:

• walleye pollack roe (generally served salted and spiced with red pepper) ➜ 明太

noun:

• happy-go-lucky fellow; an easygoing and indifferent person; a pococurante - four character idiom

noun / ~する noun:

• considering (a matter) carefully and silently; being lost in silent contemplation - four character idiom

noun:

• the four inevitables in human life (birth, aging, sickness, and death) - four character idiom - Buddhism term

noun / ~の noun:

• self-reliance; acting according to one's own ideas and beliefs - four character idiom

noun:

• burning books on the Chinese classics and burying Confucian scholars alive - four character idiom

noun / ~の noun:

• being dissolute and unruly; ruining oneself by leading a fast life - four character idiom

~たる adjective / ~と adverb:

• with colors flying and band playing; triumphantly; in splendid array

noun:

• light shower on a night in late autumn and early winter - four character idiom

adverb / ~と adverb / ~する noun:

• gasping for breath; puffing and panting; wheezing - onomatopoeia

noun:

• objective complement; noun or adjective following and modifing the direct object

noun:

• Hamaguri Gomon incident (1864 clash between pro and anti-shogunate forces)

noun:

• plant native to eastern Russia and Hokkaido (Mimulus sessilifolius Maxim. p)

noun:

• moquette (thick velvety synthetic fabric used for carpets and soft upholstery)

noun:

• hatchet; traditional Japanese edged tool with short handle and wide blade

noun:

• parent and child meeting (with teacher for course, career guidance, etc.)

noun:

• mochi cut thin, dried, and baked or fried ➜ 餅