noun:

• general election (of all members of a local government body) ➜ 地方公共団体

noun:

• pictures of ancient wise men (name of a book)

noun:

• imposition (i.e. of rules, of a decision); compulsion

noun:

• date of issuance (e.g. of a license or passport)

~たる adjective / ~と adverb:

• wide and deep (of a body of water); voluminous

noun:

• vents at the hips of a pair of hakama

noun:

• gist of what someone else said
• purpose of a visit ➜ 来意

expression / ~する verb (irregular):

• to share a cup of sake (in commemoration of something)

noun:

• point at issue; axis of a conflict; focus of confrontation

noun:

• prolamin; member of a class of proteins found in grains

noun / ~する noun:

• popular use; circulation

~する noun:

• to pass as; to pass for

noun:

• practical model; utility model; new design for practical use

noun:

• obi for men's use; men's kimono sash

noun / suffix noun:

• angle
• square (or cube)
• bishop - abbreviation - Shōgi term ➜ 角行【かくぎょう】
• third degree (of the Japanese & Chinese pentatonic scale) ➜ 五音
• Chinese "horn" constellation (one of the 28 mansions) - Astronomy term ➜ 角宿・二十八宿【にじゅうはっしゅく】・蒼竜【そうりょう】
• jiao (monetary unit of China; one-tenth of a yuan) ➜ 元【げん】

noun:

• muscle; tendon; sinew
• vein; artery
• fiber; fibre; string
• line; stripe; streak
• reason; logic ➜ 筋が通る
• plot; storyline
• lineage; descent
• school (e.g. of scholarship or arts)
• aptitude; talent
• source (of information, etc.); circle; channel
• well-informed person (in a transaction)
• logical move (in go, shogi, etc.)
• ninth vertical line - Shōgi term
• seam on a helmet
• gristly fish paste (made of muscle, tendons, skin, etc.) - abbreviation ➜ 筋蒲鉾
• social position; status - archaism

suffix noun / noun / ~の noun:

• on (a river, road, etc.); along

suffix / counter:

• counter for long thin things; counter for roads or blocks when giving directions
• (Edo period) counter for hundreds of mon (obsolete unit of currency) - archaism

noun:

• bath heated directly from beneath, with a floating wooden lid on which the bather sits causing it to sink (named after the robber Goemon Ishikawa, who was boiled to death in one)

noun:

• warrior (esp. of military retainers of daimyos in the Edo period); samurai
• man in attendance (on a person of high standing); retainer ［さぶらい］ - archaism

noun / ~の noun:

• telepathy; tacit understanding; thought transference; communion of mind with mind - four character idiom

noun:

• non-verbal Zen Buddhist transmission to a disciple of the central tenets of Buddhism - four character idiom - Buddhism term

godan ~る verb / transitive:

• to go on a pub-crawl; to drink at a round of places

expression:

• capitalizing on the fame of a parent; riding a parent's coat-tails

noun / ~する noun:

• promoting a product or service; appealing to consumers; solicitation (of business); pushing a product

noun:

• spirit of a true artisan; (a craftsman's) pride in one's work - four character idiom

noun:

• the fate of a nation; life-or-death (situation) for a nation; national crisis - four character idiom

expression:

• to catch a weasel asleep; to pluck out the eye of a live horse [literal] - idiom - sensitive - obsolete term

noun:

• campfire (usually large, and for gathering and singing, etc. around)