noun:

• Hundred Schools of Thought; general term for the large number of scholars and controversialists, and their respective schools, that flourished during China's Spring and Autumn period and Warring States period - four character idiom

expression:

• from right to left; in one ear and out the other
• nice and quick; with speed and address; without further ado

noun:

• painting of flowers and birds; bird-and-flower genre in Chinese and Japanese painting

noun / ~する noun / ~の noun:

• now advancing and now retreating; ebb and flow; seesawing; taking alternately favorable and unfavorable turns - four character idiom

noun:

• semidarkness; deep and strange; hades; the present and the other world; dark and light

noun / ~する noun:

• conservatives and reformists being neck and neck; balanced conservative and progressive strengths - four character idiom

noun:

• heaven and earth; the universe; nature; top and bottom; realm; sphere; world
• top and bottom ［てんち］
• gods of heaven and earth ［あめつち］

noun:

• superior talent and strategic wisdom; outstanding abilities and a talent for developing and implementing grand strategies - four character idiom

noun:

• Chinese and Japanese poetry and instrumental music; poetry and music; literature and music - four character idiom

noun:

• in name and in reality; nominally and virtually; form and contents

noun:

• merits and demerits; good points and bad points; strengths and weaknesses

noun:

• attaching and detaching; putting on and removing; installing and removing ➜ 着脱
• desorption Antonym: 吸着【きゅうちゃく】

noun:

• Om; Aun; syllable representing the primordial trinity of Vishnu, Shiva and Brahma - From Sanskrit
• inspiration and expiration; respiration; alpha and omega

noun:

• messenger
• police and judicial chief (Heian and Kamakura periods) - abbreviation ➜ 検非違使
• klesha (polluting thoughts such as greed, hatred and delusion, which result in suffering) - Buddhism term ➜ 煩悩

noun / ~の noun:

• east and west
• Orient and Occident; East and West

expression:

• Ladies and Gentlemen!; Your attention, please!; roll-up, roll-up ［とうざい］ - abbreviation ➜ 東西東西

noun:

• seeds and seedlings
• eggs and hatchlings; (fish) eggs and fry

noun:

• salad of fish and vegetables, dressed with crushed mustard leaves and greens seasoned with sake lees, miso and vinegar - Food term

noun:

• better being rough and ready than slow and elaborate; better being brisk and sharp than slow and prudent - four character idiom

noun:

• front and back; before and behind; before and after

adjectival noun:

• tranquillity and peace; tranquility and peace; peaceful and uneventful - four character idiom

adjectival noun:

• tall and steep
• severe and dignified; severe and cruel

noun:

• front and rear; front and back; before and behind - archaism

noun:

• the cosmic dual forces (yin and yang) and the five elements (metal, wood, water, fire and earth) in Chinese cosmology - four character idiom

noun:

• additions and deletions; adding and deleting; revisions; revising

~する noun:

• to add and to delete; to revise

noun:

• going round in circles; game of cat and mouse; pointless and repetitive back-and-forth - idiom
• itachigokko; Japanese children's game - original meaning