the public; general public
the wisdom of the many; well-known
House of Representatives (lower house of the National Diet of Japan)
group (of people); crowd; horde; throng; mob; multitude
general public; the masses
spectators; onlookers; members of the audience
all eyes; public attention
men; manservant; male attendants to an actor
young man; youth; lad; servant boy; young shopboy
disorderly crowd; mob; rabble
young man (in the Edo period, esp. one with forelocks who has not yet had his coming-of-age ceremony); young male prostitute; young kabuki actor (who may also act as a homosexual prostitute); younger partner in a homosexual relationship
all living things; mankind; the people; the world
House of Representatives (lower house of the National Diet of Japan)
crowd (of people); large group of people
male homosexuality; pederasty
courtier; noble; people serving the Imperial Court
people; crowd; masses; the public
the eight legions (devas, nagas, yaksas, gandharvas, asuras, garudas, kimnaras, mahoragas)
samurai for the shogunate
common talk; talk of the town; words of many people
assembly of monks and laity (at a rite, sermon, etc.); (monks and laity of) the Jishū sect
House of Representatives and House of Councillors; both houses of the Diet
member of the lower house; member of the House of Representatives
humble samurai who served as a body guard on foot; bodyguards in service of the shogun who would walk ahead of him on an outing (Edo period)
four orders of Buddhist followers (monks, nuns, male lay devotees and female lay devotees); four monastic communities (ordained monks, ordained nuns, male novices and female novices); the four assemblies
the masses; ordinary people
the whole assembly; the whole congregation
guard (of a daimyo, emperor, etc.)
dandy; gallant; chivalrous person
the multitudes; the people
the blind masses; the ignorant masses; the unenlightened masses; many blind people
speaker of the Lower House
many priests; (Heian era) monk-soldiers
elder chief of a village or town during Edo Period
important local businessmen (in the Muromachi period); local leaders
children; child; young male prostitute; prostitute
numerous sufferings; suffering of many people