noun:

• renting a house in the same block of houses as somebody else ➜ 相借家【あいじゃくや】
• person who rents a house in the same block of houses as oneself ➜ 相借家【あいじゃくや】

noun:

• renting a house in the same block of houses as somebody else ➜ 相店【あいだな】
• person who rents a house in the same block of houses as oneself ➜ 相店【あいだな】

noun:

• bring-your-own (e.g. food and drink); carry-on (e.g. luggage)

noun:

• Northern and Southern Dynasties (in Japan: 1336-1392 CE, in China: 420-581 CE)

noun:

• tinkering; mending pots, pans, kettles
• man and woman walking together; couple walking together - archaism

noun:

• hairdresser (for sumo wrestlers and actors); wigmaker (for actors)
• hairdressing room (Edo period Kabuki)

noun:

• making one's attitude (position, stand) clear; unfurling and clearly showing one's banner [literal] - four character idiom

noun:

• big fuss over nothing; much cry and little wool; much ado about nothing - four character idiom

noun:

• red blossoms and green willows; beautiful scenery of spring; natural beauty; beauty of nature - four character idiom

noun / adjectival noun:

• being sick and tired (of); being fed up (with); having one's fill (of) - four character idiom

noun:

• separation of Buddhism and Shintoism (government policy during the beginning of the Meiji period) - four character idiom ➜ 神仏習合

noun:

• (contemporary) customs and behavior; the picture of people's life in the contemporary world - four character idiom

noun:

• clear accounting; honest accounting (billing); transparent billing practices (in restaurant and bar charges, etc.) - four character idiom

noun:

• red blossoms and green willows; beautiful scenery of spring; natural beauty; beauty of nature - four character idiom

noun:

• search and recovery dive

noun:

• any butterfly of family Pieridae (incl. the white butterflies and the sulfur butterflies)

noun:

• four orders of Buddhist followers (monks, nuns, male lay devotees and female lay devotees) - obscure term ➜ 四衆

expression:

• between the devil and the deep sea; out of the frying pan into the fire - idiom ➜ 前門の虎後門の狼【ぜんもんのとらこうもんのおおかみ】

noun:

• facial gesture of pulling one's eyelid down and sticking out one's tongue

expression:

• between the devil and the deep sea; out of the frying pan into the fire - idiom

noun:

• Sachertorte; chocolate cake filled with apricot jam and topped with chocolate icing - From German

noun:

• sukiyaki stock; stock mixed with soy sauce, mirin and sugar (used to flavor sukiyaki) - Food term ➜ 割り下

noun:

• feces wine; faeces wine; traditional Korean medicine made from alcohol and feces (usu. human) - From Korean "ttongsul"

expression / godan ~る verb:

• to remain in memory (of sounds and words); to linger in one's ears

noun:

• business based on anime and manga characters; character-based business - From English "character business"