noun:

• emphasizing one's good qualities; presenting oneself in a favorable light - From English "self-produce" ➜ 自己演出【じこえんしゅつ】

noun:

• one's repertoire of pitches - usu. 持ち球 - Baseball term
• balls at hand (in pachinko) - usu. 持ち玉

expression:

• the samurai glories in honourable poverty; keep a stiff upper lip! - proverb

noun:

• transexual

noun / ~する noun:

• genderswap (in fan fiction, etc.) - slang ➜ 女体化

noun:

• total station
• tracking stock

noun / ~する noun:

• negotiating for permission to film (in a specific location) ➜ ロケ

ichidan verb / intransitive verb:

• to go out (e.g. on an excursion or outing); to leave; to depart; to start; to set out
• to be about to leave; to be just going out

noun:

• shrine ritual held with the first two months of the year to forecast (or pray for) a successful harvest
• seasonal planting of rice on a field affiliated with a shrine

godan ~る verb / transitive:

• to swindle out of; to cheat out of; to defraud of
• to misrepresent oneself as; to pretend to be; to assume (a name or title); to falsify (e.g. a seal)

noun:

• nisei; second-generation Japanese (or Korean, etc.); foreigner of Japanese parentage

noun / suffix noun / prefix noun:

• the Second (king, etc. of the same name); second generation; junior

noun:

• son - colloquialism

noun:

• loading a horse with passengers or baggage
• driving a horse into a pen
• Hexacentrus japonicus (species of katydid); Hexacentrus unicolor (species of katydid) - abbreviation ➜ 馬追虫

noun:

• contest decided by a single round (bout); contest decided by a single roll of dice; one-shot game (contest); make-or-break game - four character idiom

noun:

• contest decided by a single round (bout); contest decided by a single roll of dice; one-shot game (contest); make-or-break game - four character idiom

noun:

• contest decided by a single round (bout); contest decided by a single roll of dice; one-shot game (contest); make-or-break game - four character idiom

noun:

• salary supplement, e.g. for work performed at inconvenient times or as overtime allowance usually for so-called exempt workers, i.e. workers who are expected to work a certain number of overtime hours ➜ 割増賃金

noun / expression:

• one-track mind; person who always acts the same or says the same thing (esp. person who always cracks the same kind of jokes) - humorous term - From English "very special one pattern"

noun:

• main text (as opposed to any included commentary or annotations)
• authentic text (e.g. of a treaty, as opposed to any translation not specified as authentic) - Law term
• Chinese classical literature

noun / ~する noun:

• intermission during a performance (e.g. variety show, play, sumo, etc.)
• temporary departure of an actor (between the first and second halves of a noh or kyogen performance, during which time they change costumes, etc.)

noun:

• (a) jump
• splashes (usu. of mud)
• upward turn at the bottom (e.g. of a vertical stroke of a kanji or of a hairdo) - often 撥ね
• close (e.g. of a theatrical performance); breakup

adverb:

• before long; soon
• almost; nearly
• finally; in the end; eventually

noun:

• birth; birthplace

suffix noun / ~の noun:

• born in (country, month, imperial era, zodiac year, etc.)

noun:

• number (in a series)
• (one's) turn
• watch; guard; lookout
• bout; match - Sumo term

adverbial noun / temporal noun / ~の noun:

• originally; primarily
• essentially; naturally; by nature; in (and of) itself
• proper; legal

noun:

• limits; boundary; domain; zone; sphere; territory
• area (e.g. in programming languages)

noun:

• geta; Japanese wooden clogs
• turn (in set-type proofing); upside-down character - later printed as 〓, resembling the teeth of a geta ➜ 伏せ字【ふせじ】

noun / ~の noun:

• pink
• erotic (usually used in relation to the sex industry); blue; pornographic