錦上添花

きんじょうてんか

adding a crowning touch of beauty (to), giving added luster (to), crowning beauty (honor, grace) with even greater glory

錦上花を添える

きんじょうかをそえる きんじょうはなをそえる

crowning beauty with even greater glory

錦上

きんじょう

crowning beauty with even greater glory

花屋敷

はなやしき

public flower garden

陣を敷く

じんをしく

to encamp, to take up a position

尻に敷く

しりにしく

to dominate (usu. one's husband)

上敷き

うわしき うわじき

bordered matting, rug, carpet

上屋敷

かみやしき

daimyo's main Tokyo mansion

花を引く

はなをひく

to play hana cards

故郷に錦を飾る

こきょうににしきをかざる

to come home in triumph, to return to one's hometown in glory

布団を敷く

ふとんをしく

to lay out a futon, to make a bed

法令を敷く

ほうれいをしく

to promulgate a law

錦を飾る

にしきをかざる

to return home loaded with honors; to return as a hero; to put on fine clothes

敷く

しく

to spread out, to lay out

錦

にしき

brocade

上を向く

うえをむく

to look upward

上を行く

うえをいく

to be ahead of

死に花

しにばな しにはな

a blooming cut flower, glorious death

嶺上開花

リンシャンカイホウ

winning hand formed by drawing a replacement tile after declaring a kong