noun:

• final three bouts on the last day of a tournament - Sumo term

noun:

• pushing sumo; classic way of wrestling without using the belt - Sumo term

noun:

• rule prohibiting match-ups between wrestlers from the same family - Sumo term

noun:

• rule prohibiting match-ups between wrestlers from the same family - Sumo term

noun:

• rule prohibiting match-ups between wrestlers from the same stable - Sumo term

noun:

• sacred items buried in the ring during its ritual purification - Sumo term

noun:

• extreme leg-stretching exercise to increase flexibility of the crotch - Sumo term

noun:

• late Edo-period pejorative for the Dutch; red-haired barbarian [literal]

~たる adjective / ~と adverb:

• memories of the past events (being, becoming) far and distant - archaism - four character idiom ➜ 往事茫々

noun:

• maelstrom; the state of affairs being in great turmoil - four character idiom

expression:

• people in the whole world being all brothers; universal brotherhood - four character idiom

noun:

• (the two sides) being evenly-matched in influence or power - four character idiom

expression:

• beauty and fortune seldom go together; the beautiful die young - four character idiom

expression:

• (when) the time of need arises; should an emergency occur - four character idiom

noun:

• the founder of our sect (esp. in reference to Nichiren) - honorific language

noun / ~の noun:

• familism; the treatment of society (an organization) as a family

noun:

• addiction to the printed word; reading addict; book (print) junkie - four character idiom

noun / adjectival noun / ~の noun:

• perfunctory; going-through-the-motions-sort of (invitation, gift, etc.) - four character idiom

noun:

• cosmopolitan (international) way of thinking; feeling for the wider world - four character idiom

noun:

• the state (degree) of congestion; how bad traffic jams are - four character idiom

noun:

• one's grasp of the situation; knowing how matters stand - four character idiom

noun:

• the scenery being beautiful in both sunny and rainy weather - four character idiom

noun:

• rights and wrongs; the relative merits (of a case); propriety - four character idiom

noun:

• (being granted) the privileges of one's former (official) post - four character idiom

noun:

• winter, night, and rainy weather; the ideal conditions for reading - four character idiom