noun / ~する noun:

• flying
• false start - abbreviation ➜ フライングスタート
• doing something before the arranged time; breaking a street date

suffix noun / noun:

• itself

noun:

• one's own body; oneself

adverb:

• originally; naturally; by nature; from the start

noun:

• playing to the gallery; grandstanding; gag; claptrap

adjectival noun / ~の noun:

• ad hoc; haphazard

noun:

• dress rehearsal - abbreviation ➜ 場当たり稽古

noun:

• Defense Readiness Condition; DEFCON; alert state used by the United States Armed Forces

noun:

• Turkish bath
• soapland (brothel where one can bathe with the prostitutes) - sensitive ➜ ソープランド

noun / ~する noun:

• stirring up trouble to get credit from the solution - From English "match pump, i.e. lighting a match and then putting it out with a water pump"

noun:

• Rigel Kentaurus (star in the constellation Centaurus); Alpha Centauri - Astronomy term

noun:

• movements for sending young people to the countryside in China (1937, 1957, 1968) ➜ 下放運動【かほううんどう】

noun:

• summer greeting card; inquiry after someone's health in the hot season ➜ 暑中見舞

noun:

• dripping; drop; trickle
• water trickling from moss, rocks, or cliffs in the summer

noun:

• entering the priesthood; priest; monk - Buddhism term
• man with a shaven head
• bald-headed monster

noun:

• bedding that is never put away during the day; permanently laid-out futon

noun:

• Xiongnu; ancient Central Asian nomadic people often associated with the Huns ➜ フン族

noun:

• memorial service held on the seventh day following a person's death - Buddhism term

noun:

• New Year's greetings or well-wishes offered by retainers to the Emperor

noun / ~する noun:

• drawing seawater to make salt; person who draws water from the sea

noun:

• grapple; scuffle; fight
• defeating one's enemy on the battlefield

noun / ~する noun:

• meddling; interfering

noun:

• choosing to keep the drawn tile and discarding a different one - Mahjong term ➜ ツモ切り【ツモぎり】

noun:

• sitting while waiting; (according to the lunar calendar) an eighteen-day-old moon

noun:

• heated stone (wrapped in cloth and kept next to the body for warmth)

noun / ~する noun:

• pressing clothes, etc. by placing them under the bedding while one sleeps

noun:

• comical (story, song); comic
• the comedy business (rakugo, manzai, etc.)
• something laughable

noun:

• era during early 1900s dominated by the grand champions Hitachiyama and Umegatani II - Sumo term

noun:

• era during early 1900s dominated by the grand champions Hitachiyama and Umegatani II - Sumo term

adjectival noun / noun / ~の noun:

• innocent; naive; unsophisticated; inexperienced; green; wet behind the ears - esp. 初, 初心

prefix noun:

• birth- - 産, 生