noun:

• suited figure; person in a suit

noun:

• convert; person converted to a religion or belief

expression / adverb:

• openly; squarely; directly; to a person's face

noun / ~する noun:

• audience (with a person of high standing)

expression / noun:

• gathering to remember a dead person; memorial meeting

noun:

• great harm (esp. to a person); murder - obscure term

noun:

• falling on one's backside (behind, bottom); pratfall ➜ 尻餅をつく
• mochi used to celebrate a child's first birthday; mochi tied to a baby's back if he starts walking before his first birthday in order to cause him to fall on his backside

noun:

• stone statue of Jizo (often found along roads) ➜ 地蔵
• taciturn person; person uninterested in romance

noun:

• countryfolk; villager; provincial - archaism ➜ 田舎者
• greedy person; underclass; low-standing person ［ひじん］ - derogatory term - archaism

noun:

• developing new ideas based on study of the past; learning from the past - four character idiom

particle:

• on the same occasion; at the same time; coincidentally; along with; partly (to do, for)

noun:

• Japanese style of calligraphy based on the gyousho style popular in the Edo period ➜ 青蓮院流

noun:

• small statue of Shoki the Plague-Queller (placed on the overhang of traditional houses) ➜ 鍾馗

noun / ~する noun:

• contribution (to a newspaper, magazine, etc.); submission; post (on a forum, blog, etc.)

expression:

• like water off a duck's back; urine on a frog's face [literal] - colloquialism ➜ 蛙の面に水

expression / godan ~る verb:

• to take a position (e.g. on an issue); to adopt a stance

noun / ~する noun:

• listening (to a lecture, hearing, parliament session, etc.); attending (without participating); sitting in (e.g. on a meeting); observing

noun:

• fatwa; legal pronouncement in Islam, issued by a religious law specialist on a specific issue - From Arabic "fatwa"

noun:

• ball-toss game, in which balls are thrown into a basket on a high pole (played at sports festivals)

noun:

• peep show; device with lens mounted on a stand or in a box to view enlarged pictures

noun:

• distance from the seam in the back of a kimono to the end of the sleeve

noun:

• exegesis; explanation of a text; commentary on a text

noun:

• natural or man-made feature or object on the earth's surface (trees, hill, river, road, building, etc.); object or structure important in a battle, esp. for concealment

noun:

• gallery (of a theatre)
• audience (at a theatre); the masses; the general public

noun:

• the right to bear a surname and to wear a sword (during the Edo period) - four character idiom