all day

(informal) Clipping of 明けましておめでとう、今年もよろしくお願いします (akemashite omedetō, kotoshi mo yoroshiku onegai shi masu): an expression celebrating the new year and seeking good relations throughout the new year

(humorous, pun, dated) Alternative form of よっこいしょ

picking and choosing as one pleases

quadrangular pyramid

(Buddhism) the four stages of existence: 生有(しょうう) (shōu, “moment of birth”), 本有(ほんぬ) (honnu, “life”), 死有(しう) (shiu, “moment of death”), and 中有(ちゅうう) (chūu, “state between death and the next reincarnation”)

(game of Go) ladder

four sixes; twenty-four

four people

the four gods 青龍(せいりょう) (Seiryō), 朱雀(すざく) (Suzaku), 白虎(びゃっこ) (Byakko), 玄武(げんぶ) (Genbu), imported to Japan from Chinese mythology