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まいちもんじ

straight line; beeline

どうぶんどうしゅ

same race and same script

はんぶんじょくれい

red-tapism

ぶんげいふっこう

Renaissance

にそくさんもん

dirt cheap; very cheap

ぶんしつひんぴん

harmony of beauty and substance; (perfect) balance of looks and character; harmony of refinement and simplicity

ぶんめいかいか

civilization and enlightenment; Japan's Westernization movement during the Meiji era (Westernisation)

ぶんぶりょうどう

being accomplished in both the literary and military arts; doing well in both school and sports

げんぶんいっち

unification of the written and spoken forms of a language

いんぶんいんぶ

being versed in the literary and military arts

ぶんじんぼっかく

writers and artists; persons who take delight in such refined pursuits as poetry, literature, painting and calligraphy

むがくもんもう

ignorant and illiterate; uneducated and illiterate; uneducated and illiterate person

ふりゅうもんじ

Buddhist revelation through intuitive discernment; Spiritual awakening cannot be experienced with words and letters; Spiritual enlightenment can be attained only by means of communion of mind with mind (Zen Buddhism)

ぶんぶけんび

well up in both literary and military (martial) arts; well skilled in wielding both the sword and the pen

ぶんぶひゃっかん

all the officials, both military and civil

むちもんもう

ignorance and illiteracy

いちもんふつう

total illiteracy

いちもんきなか

meagre sum of money

ぶぶんきょくひつ

twisting of the truth in one's writing; playing with text to distort the truth

ぶんぶふき

scholarship and swordsmanship are one and the same; the literary and the military are the same path