noun:

• diversionary tactics; concealing one's true motives until the last moment - four character idiom ➜ 敵は本能寺にあり

noun:

• unity of church and state - four character idiom

noun:

• bureaucratism; bureaucratic nature - four character idiom

noun:

• question of degree - four character idiom

noun:

• view in the distant offing where the sea and skyline cannot be distinguished - four character idiom

noun:

• lateral thinking - four character idiom

noun:

• memorial service - four character idiom - Buddhism term

noun / ~する noun:

• incomplete combustion; imperfect combustion
• being off one's game; not doing one's best; being unable to use all of one's strength; failing to obtain the desired result - idiom

noun:

• All rights reserved - four character idiom

noun / adjectival noun:

• slowcoach; lazybones; slowpoke - idiom

noun:

• arrogance - four character idiom

noun:

• arrogance - four character idiom

noun:

• (arrogance and) insolence - four character idiom

noun:

• carving with a knife - four character idiom
• cheap trick; simple trickery; petty strategem

noun:

• sufficient condition - four character idiom ➜ 必要条件

noun:

• expression suggesting that the pace of change makes ten years back seem like ancient history - four character idiom

noun:

• useless book learning; knowing the theory but being able to put it into practice; practising swimming on a tatami mat [literal] - idiom - humorous term

temporal noun:

• since the dawn of history - four character idiom

noun:

• tangible and intangible; material and spiritual - four character idiom

noun:

• mob; the masses; rabble; riffraff - four character idiom

noun:

• studies in usages and practices of the ancient court and military households - four character idiom

noun:

• national interests and the people's welfare - four character idiom

noun:

• the power of life or death - four character idiom

noun:

• excessive or unjustifiable self-defense (defence) - four character idiom

noun / ~する noun:

• adaptation (e.g. of a poem or novel); rewriting; recasting; modification; rehashing - four character idiom