noun:

• combined liquor store and bar; combined off-license and pub (licence)
• drinking alcohol while standing in the shop

noun:

• Shinsengumi; shogunate police and military force located in Kyoto and dedicated to suppressing anti-shogunate activities (Edo period)

noun:

• Columbian exchange; widespread exchange of animals, plants, culture, disease, and ideas between the Old and New Worlds

noun:

• discreet and well-advised judgment; wise and mature judgment; making judgment with prudence - four character idiom

adjectival noun / noun:

• heavy, thick, long, and big (products, esp. industrial); massive and heavy; heavy (industry) - four character idiom Antonym: 軽薄短小

expression / ~の noun / adjectival noun / adverbial noun:

• a lot more; much more; and then some; and plenty more than that

ichidan verb / transitive:

• to separate and discard; to sieve and sort; to wash out (impurities, etc.) - obscure term

noun:

• Buddha triad; image of a Buddha attended by two Bodhisattvas ［さんぞん］ - Buddhism term
• The Three Jewels; Buddha, the teachings of Buddha, and the community of monks and nuns ［さんぞん］ - Buddhism term ➜ 三宝
• head and shoulders (stock price, etc. chart pattern) ［さんぞん］ ➜ 三尊天井
• the three people one must esteem: master, father, teacher

noun:

• life and death
• samsara (cycle of death and rebirth) ［しょうし・しょうじ］ - Buddhism term
• death ［しょうし・しょうじ］

noun:

• man in good health between 21 and 60 years of age to whom applied various corvee and taxes (under the ritsuryo system)

noun:

• off and on manner; intermittent style; dragging on and on - often 五月雨式に - four character idiom ➜ 五月雨【さみだれ】

noun:

• people from overseas, especially from China and Korea, who settled in early Japan and introduced Continental culture to the Japanese

noun:

• priest who was also a street performer and performed prayers and other religious duties for the sake of other people

noun:

• gods and demons; divine spirits and souls of the dead
• one with (spiritual) power beyond that of humans
• fierce god ➜ 鬼神【きしん】

noun:

• labour and management; labor and management

noun:

• light and darkness; light and shade

noun:

• tools and materials; equipment and materials

noun:

• peace and order; law and order - four character idiom

noun:

• virtue and influence; virtue and authority

noun:

• God and man; heaven and man

noun:

• divide and rule; divide and conquer

noun:

• this and that; such and such

noun:

• peace and tranquility; peace and tranquillity

noun / adjectival noun:

• simple and clear; plain and simple - four character idiom

noun / adjectival noun:

• pure and innocent through and through - four character idiom