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

noun / ~の noun:

• feeling a little drunk with the New Year's sake - four character idiom

noun:

• The Hundred Days (of Napoleon I); very short-lived regime - four character idiom

noun:

• lintel (lacking the grooves needed for a sliding door) - Architecture term ➜ 蹴放し

noun / suffix noun / ~の noun:

• the end (of); last time (doing); finishing up; closing - oft. after noun or -masu stem of verb

noun:

• Aceraceae; family of flowering plants including the maples ➜ 槭樹

noun:

• Caprifoliaceae; family of flowering plants comprising the honeysuckles

noun:

• Ebenaceae; family of flowering plants including the ebony

noun:

• Tiliaceae; family of flowering plants, incl. the linden

noun:

• nuclear family in the postwar generation - From English "new family"