noun:

• common soldier
• rank and file (of a political party)

noun:

• perspective of an ordinary person; common sense; popular feeling

noun:

• riichi with self-draw win (common pair of yaku) - Mahjong term

ichidan verb:

• to use excessively; to use too much; to spend too much; to overwork someone

noun:

• the four great families of the age (esp. the Minamoto clan, the Taira clan, the Fujiwara clan and the Tachibana clan)
• varna (each of the four Hindu castes) ➜ ヴァルナ

noun:

• line-out (rugby); lineout - Sports term
• becoming out by running more than 3 feet outside the base line - Baseball term
• line out (signal)

noun / ~する noun:

• establishing (a new family register); compiling (an electoral register, a list of school-age children, etc.)

noun:

• common camellia; Camellia japonica
• tea produced in the mountains ［さんちゃ］

expression:

• he has not lived that lives not after death; the great use of life is to spend it for something that will outlast it; tigers leave their hide when they die; men leave their name [literal] - proverb

noun:

• proportional representation electoral system (in which party votes are cast, and candidates from each party are elected based on an ordered list available to the public)

noun:

• university; college ➜ 総合大学
• former central university of Kyoto (established under the ritsuryo system for the training of government administrators) - abbreviation ➜ 大学寮・国学【こくがく】
• the Great Learning (one of the Four Books) ➜ 四書

noun:

• night of the full moon; the night of the 15th day of the 8th lunar month

noun:

• (of the) genre painting style; (of the) style of painting that depicts people's customs and manners; (of the) type of painting that denotes the life of ordinary people - four character idiom

noun:

• telegram sent at night (usually to make use of a reduced rate)

expression:

• when dealing with urgent business, make use of whoever is handy - proverb

noun:

• advertising the excellence of one's wares; boasting; self-advertisement
• statement of the virtues of a medicine; description of the virtues of a drug ➜ 効能書き【こうのうがき】

noun:

• Ilex macropoda (species of holly common in Japan)

noun:

• Acanthurus (type genus of surgeonfishes and tangs in the family Acanthuridae which have a pair of sharp spines on either side of the base of the tail)

noun:

• the milk of human kindness of the people of the traditional commercial and working-class neighborhoods - four character idiom

noun:

• flat part of the top of the cranium
• plate-like depression on the head of kappa ➜ 河童

noun:

• outside - children's language

noun:

• commentary (on any of the 384 lines of the hexagrams in the Book of Changes)

noun:

• heaven of the thirty-three; one of the six heavens of the desire realm - Buddhism term ➜ 六欲天

noun:

• heaven of the Four Great Kings; one of the six heavens of the desire realm - Buddhism term ➜ 四天王・六欲天

noun:

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