noun / adjectival noun:

• honest and straightforward to a fault - four character idiom

noun:

• establishing and refuting (a doctrine) - Buddhism term

noun:

• one year and a half

noun:

• aiding and abetting a robbery

expression:

• rear a tiger and court disaster - proverb

expression:

• rear a tiger and court disaster - proverb

noun:

• scarlet kadsura (Kadsura japonica) ➜ 実葛【さねかずら】
• white sash tied around the head, with ends hanging down and tucked into belt, worn in kyogen to indicate a female character being played by a man

noun:

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

noun:

• flowers reflected on a mirror and the moon reflected on the water's surface; something that is visible but having no substance; the subtle and profound beauty of poems that cannot be described in words - four character idiom

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

expression / ichidan verb:

• to have grown tense (of a situation); to have become critical (and to be on the verge of a major upheaval)

noun:

• lint (as in a clothes dryer or a pocket); waste thread; fibers, such as might wrap around the gears in small mechanisms and cause them to jam; fluff ➜ 綿ぼこり

noun:

• sitting outdoors - archaism
• room that served both as a reception room and as a living room in a Heian-period mansion ➜ 寝殿造り
• temporary sitting place installed in the garden at the imperial court, used on the occasion of archery or sumo ceremonies

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:

• temple name (a two-character posthumous name given to Chinese, Korean and Vietnamese royalty)
• name given to a mausoleum (or shrine, etc.)

noun:

• town order (Edo period); order issued by a shogun or daimyo affecting a whole town, and passed on by town officials

noun:

• an offering of tea and hot water made to Buddha or the spirit of the deceased
• a tea infusion; tea and hot water
• tea ceremony ➜ 茶の湯

noun:

• wealth and military strength of a country; "rich country, strong army": a slogan from the Meiji era referring to the government's goals for the country - 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:

• construction of a new shrine and transfer of the enshrined object from the old to the new, occurring at a regular, preordained time