surname ②hereditary title (used in ancient Japan to denote rank and political standing)

(full) name

same surname

one's original family name

full name

fortunetelling based on writing or pronunciation of one's name

different surname

change of one's family name ②changed family name

another surname

the common people

real or original name

mother's family name

the four great families of the age (esp. the Minamoto clan, the Taira clan, the Fujiwara clan and the Tachibana clan) ②varna (each of the four Hindu castes)

uji-kabane system

to assume a new surname

use of separate surnames by a married couple

having the same family name and given name (as someone else)

revolution (change of dynasty) decreed by Heaven when the incumbent emperor is found lacking in moral virtue (old Chinese political thought)

unidentified

former surname

farmer ②farming ③country bumpkin ④the common people

(noble's) page

farmer

person of humble birth

secular surname (of a priest)

peasant uprising (Edo period)

farmer's home

farmer

poor peasant

peasant

unorthodox reading of kanji (in compounds)

serf

low class samurai, who guarded the shogun on outings (Edo period)

dirt-poor farmer

freeholding farmer

Shinsen Shouji Roku (Newly Compiled Record of Clan Names; 815 CE)

hereditary title (used in ancient Japan to denote rank and political standing) ②clan

eight hereditary titles (designated by Emperor Tenmu in 684 CE: Mahito, Ason, Sukune, Imiki, Michinoshi, Omi, Muraji, Inagi)