noun:

• regional administrator (pre-Taika hereditary title)

noun:

• Atai (post-Taika hereditary title often given to regional administrators) ➜ 国造・姓【かばね】

noun:

• Muraji (hereditary title; orig. one of the two highest such titles, later demoted to seventh highest of eight) - archaism

noun:

• lord (hereditary title for imperial descendants in outlying regions) - archaism ➜ 姓【かばね】

noun:

• Obito (hereditary title, often given to powerful regional families) - archaism ➜ 姓【かばね】

noun:

• morganatic marriage (marriage of a noble and a commoner that disallows the passage of title, possessions, etc.)

noun:

• ukyounodaibu (title under the ritsuryo system at the imperial court) - archaism ➜ 律令

noun:

• holder (of a record, title, etc.)

prefix noun / ~の noun:

• person working for someone else (followed by job title); hired

noun:

• Duce; Il Duce (title assumed by Mussolini)

noun / ~する noun:

• pretension; assumption (of a title)

godan ~る verb / transitive:

• to be awarded (e.g. a prize); to be given an award; to receive (e.g. a title)
• to be gifted or endowed (e.g. with a talent)
• to be blessed (e.g. with a child)
• to be initiated (e.g. into a secret)

noun:

• name; given name
• title
• fame; renown; reputation
• pretext; pretense; justification; appearance

godan ~る verb / intransitive verb / transitive:

• to give one's name (as); to introduce oneself (as)
• to claim to be; to call oneself; to wear the title of
• to reveal oneself (as); to admit to being

godan ~る verb / transitive:

• to adopt as one's name; to take (a name)

godan ~る verb / intransitive verb:

• to call out the goods one is selling - archaism

noun:

• young man of conscription age who has not yet undergone military training - archaism
• man with no title and no rank (under the ritsuryo system); commoner - archaism
• servant dressed in a white uniform who carries objects for his master ［はくちょう］ - archaism ➜ 白張

noun:

• male lay devotee - Buddhism term
• title affixed to man's posthumous Buddhist name
• believer ［しんし］ - archaism

noun:

• opening; start; launch
• opening credits; title sequence - abbreviation ➜ ＯＰ【オーピー】
• theme song (played during the opening credits of a TV show, etc.) - abbreviation ➜ ＯＰ【オーピー】

noun / suffix noun:

• bodhisattva; one who has reached enlightenment but vows to save all beings before becoming a buddha - Buddhism term
• High Monk (title bestowed by the imperial court)
• title bestowed to Shinto kami in manifestation theory ➜ 本地垂迹説

noun:

• retainer; attendant - archaism
• Omi (hereditary title; orig. one of the two highest such titles, later demoted to sixth highest of eight) ［おみ］ ➜ 八色の姓
• I; me ［しん］ - used by a servant when speaking to their master - humble language

noun:

• surname; family name
• hereditary title (used in ancient Japan to denote rank and political standing) ［せい］ ➜ 姓【かばね】

noun:

• door; gate; opening
• title page

noun:

• subject (of a painting); motif; theme
• title of a painting

noun:

• denomination of a Shinto shrine ➜ 神社【じんじゃ】・神宮【じんぐう】
• company title; company denomination ➜ 社名【しゃめい】

noun:

• female lay devotee - Buddhism term
• title affixed to woman's posthumous Buddhist name

noun:

• junior Shinto priest - Shintō term ➜ 宮司・禰宜・神主
• Shinto priest; generic title for a member of the Shinto priesthood - polite language - obscure term - Shintō term