expression:

• putting on weight from the good (married) life - colloquialism

noun:

• someone with inferior education

expression / godan ~む verb:

• to move along with the times - obscure term

adjectival noun / ~の noun / ~たる adjective / ~と adverb / noun:

• rising above the trivia of life and remaining calm and selfless - archaism - four character idiom

noun:

• hear something for the last time

noun:

• shower stool with a u-shaped hole in the middle

noun:

• the Big Three (countries)

noun / ~する noun:

• rebirth in paradise; peaceful death - four character idiom

noun:

• thin soup of fish or shellfish boiled in seawater

noun:

• the easier of two slopes

expression:

• honey in one's mouth but a razor in one's belt - idiom

noun:

• the neck

noun:

• area remote from the city; outlying area

noun:

• look of the sky

noun:

• cakes heaped in a container for a shrine offering

noun / ~する noun:

• intermingling of public policy with private interest; mixing up official business with personal affairs - four character idiom

noun:

• repairing pottery with a lacquer mixed with gold, silver, etc.

noun:

• river raised above the surrounding land

noun:

• the teacher's home

expression:

• great human beings never lose the innocence of childhood; a virtuous ruler never loses the spirit of the common people - from Mencius - proverb

expression / noun:

• party in full swing; party at its peak

expression / ichidan verb:

• to bind (a criminal) with rope; to arrest; to seize
• to bind (something) with rope

expression / ichidan verb:

• to pay the bill; to settle an account

noun / ~する noun:

• undergoing a complete change in appearance; changing something out of all recognition; a rise in one's reputation - four character idiom

noun:

• stencil dyeing produced with various shades of indigo