noun:

• recognition and guarantee, by the shogunate, of ownership of the inherited estate of a samurai who pledged allegiance to it (in the Kamakura and early Muromachi periods) - four character idiom

noun:

• pot of chicken or seafood, and vegetables in a dashi broth, usu. cooked at the table (traditionally a winter meal); seafood and vegetable stew or chowder ➜ 寄せ

noun:

• light and shade; shade (of colour, color)
• depth (of flavor); complexity; strength and weakness (of flavor)

noun:

• tall, lanky person; bean pole

adjectival noun / ~の noun:

• tall and thin; tall and lanky

adjective:

• astringent; bitter; puckery; rough; harsh; tart
• austere; elegant (and unobtrusive); refined; quiet (and simple); sober; sombre; subdued; tasteful (in a quiet way); understated
• sour (look); glum; grim; sullen; sulky
• stingy; tight-fisted

noun / suffix noun:

• seat; place; position
• status
• gathering; group
• stand; pedestal; platform
• (historical) trade guild

suffix:

• attaches to the names of theatres, theatrical troupes, and constellations

suffix / counter:

• counter for theatres, deities, Buddhist images, tall mountains, and satokagura songs ➜ 里神楽

noun:

• rewarding good and punishing evil; novel or drama with a rewarding-good-and-punishing-evil theme; moral purpose; morality play - four character idiom

noun:

• all green; winning hand consisting only of exclusively green tiles (green dragons and suited bamboo tiles of the numbers 2, 3, 4, 6 and 8) - Mahjong term - From Chinese

~の noun / noun:

• speckled with white; salt-and-pepper (pattern, fabric, etc.)

noun:

• marbling (of beef) ➜ 霜降り肉
• (of fish, chicken, shellfish, etc.) blanching by exposure to boiling and then icy water - abbreviation ➜ 霜降り作り
• formation of frost - orig. meaning

noun / ~する noun:

• waxing and waning of the moon; phase of the moon - Astronomy term ➜ 盈虧
• rising and falling (of fortune)

noun:

• household belongings; household possession; furniture and household goods; goods and chattels; home furnishings; household goods; traps

noun:

• tools for machine operation and maintenance
• machine tool; power tool; cutting tool
• machines and tools

noun:

• land and air; land and air forces

expression:

• this, that and the other; this and that

pre-noun adjectival:

• that (someone or something distant from both speaker and listener, or situation unfamiliar to both speaker and listener) ➜ 何の【どの】・此の・其の・彼【あれ】

noun:

• well up in both literary and military (martial) arts; well skilled in wielding both the sword and the pen - four character idiom

noun:

• Tang-era Chinese music
• style of gagaku based on Tang-era Chinese music and ancient Indian song and dance ➜ 雅楽・林邑楽

noun:

• one jō and six shaku (4.85m)
• statue of Buddha measuring one jō and six shaku
• sitting cross-legged

expression:

• only a hero can understand a hero; swallows and sparrows can't understand the aspirations of phoenixes and swans [literal] - proverb - four character idiom

noun / ~する noun / ~の noun:

• making a round trip; going and returning; coming and going
• round-trip ticket; return ticket - abbreviation ➜ 往復切符
• correspondence; exchanging (letters)
• socializing; visiting one another

~と adverb / ~する noun:

• warm and fluffy; soft - onomatopoeia
• steamy hot (food); hot and flaky

expression:

• feeling mentally tired; feeling of tired relief or accomplishment after effort or perseverance - Kansai dialect

noun:

• the world of hungry spirits and the world of animals; three evil worlds hell - abbreviation - Buddhism term ➜ 三悪道【さんあくどう】
• three evils (prostitution, drugs and venereal diseases) ［さんあく］

noun:

• joint venture of government and business; business venture financed jointly by the public and private sectors; semi-public sector; third sector [literal]

noun:

• Imperial Prosecuting and Investigating Office (1869-1871 CE) ［だんじょうだい］
• Imperial Prosecuting and Investigating Office (under the ritsuryo system) ➜ 律令制

noun:

• maternity and gynaecology department (gynecology); department of obstetrics and gynaecology (gynecology)