パイプ役[paipuyaku] mediator
悪役[akuyaku] villain
一役[ichiyaku] an office
一役[hitoyaku] role (which someone or something plays in a given situation)
下役[shitayaku] underling

仮役[kariyaku] temporary post
加役[kayaku] temporary extra work
監査役[kansayaku] auditor
顔役[kaoyaku] influential man
区役所[kuyakusho] ward office

垂迹[suijaku] temporary manifestation by a buddha (in order to save people)
筆迹[hisseki] handwriting
真迹[shinseki] true autograph

事迹[jiseki] evidence
本地垂迹説[honjisuijakusetsu] manifestation theory (holding that Shinto gods are manifestations of buddhas)
迹門[shakumon] first half of the Lotus Sutra, in which the Buddha appears as a spatiotemporally restricted being