noun:

• (the likes of) a mere actor - four character idiom

noun / ~する noun:

• the breakup (dispersal) of a family - four character idiom

noun:

• (like a) part of the family

noun / ~の noun:

• vomer (a bone of the skull)

noun:

• buying the services of a prostitute

~の noun / noun:

• having the qualities of a leader

noun:

• word - archaism
• waka (classic Japanese poem, esp. a tanka) ➜ 和歌

noun:

• sex establishment (as regulated by a specific Japanese law)

noun:

• core
• tang (of a sword, etc.)
• middle of a nest of boxes ➜ 入れ子

noun / ~する noun:

• reallocating private land to public use (e.g. parks, roads); reduction in the amount of private land following a land reallocation; reducing the area of private land to reallocate it to public uses

noun:

• flowers reflected on a mirror and the moon reflected on the water's surface; something that is visible but having no substance; the subtle and profound beauty of poems that cannot be described in words - four character idiom

noun:

• leading a group of people; someone who leads others into a song by singing the leading notes ➜ 音頭を取る【おんどをとる】
• workmen's songs; marching songs

adverb / ~と adverb:

• in a crowd; in droves; in a stream; in succession - onomatopoeia
• crawling (of insects); swarming - onomatopoeia
• dragging (e.g. along the ground); trailing; stretching out - onomatopoeia

expression / adverb:

• by the end of this year; before the year comes to a close; during this year

noun:

• main street (esp. in a capital); main thoroughfare ➜ 小路【こうじ】
• most important of the three classes of highway (ritsuryo period) ［たいろ］ - archaism

noun:

• deathbed adoption of a successor (to prevent extinction of the family line); person adopted by someone on his deathbed - four character idiom

noun:

• (of members of the Imperial family) becoming subjects of the state - four character idiom

expression / godan ~む verb:

• to get a salary (from); to receive a stipend (from); to be on the payroll (of)

noun:

• official in charge of the administration of domains and general affairs of powerful noble families (from the middle of the Heian period)
• titled lady (legal wife of an important official) - honorific language - abbreviation ➜ 北の政所
• government office related to finances (Kamakura and Muromachi periods)
• clerk working for large temples and shrines

noun / ~の noun:

• lumping together all sorts of things; making sweeping generalizations; dealing with various things under one head

noun:

• right-hand match; ends-with match; backward match; matching a sub-string with the end of a field - IT term ➜ 前方一致・部分一致

noun:

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

noun:

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

noun:

• patron (of the arts, an artist, etc.); patroness; financial supporter
• sugar daddy; man who provides for a woman (e.g. a geisha) ➜ 芸者・旦那
• patron; master; manager; boss

noun:

• pot - polite language
• typical name for a female servant in the Edo-period - archaism
• working at night
• female with symptoms of gender identity disorder (e.g. a transvestite) - often derog. - usually written using kana alone - slang