noun / ~する noun:

• author directing or producing his or her own play (film) - four character idiom
• staging oneself for effect; presenting oneself in a favorable light - four character idiom

noun / adjectival noun:

• honest to a fault; one's only strength being his (her) honesty; having no redeeming feature except for being honest - four character idiom

noun:

• winding a replacement thread, wire, etc.
• changing from an overarm to an underarm grip on one's opponent's belt - Sumo term

expression / godan ~る verb:

• to accurately guess what subjects will turn up on a test; to have one's predictions turn out correct

noun:

• nitrogen mustard (chemical compound related to mustard gas, used as a chemical weapon or an anticarcinogen)

expression:

• first verse of a nursery rhyme sung by children on cold days (similar to "It's Raining, It's Pouring")

noun:

• flower charcoal (whereby a flower, seed, branch, or other item of flora is carbonized as is, retaining its form)

noun:

• fire alarm ringing continuously to warn that a fire is extremely near ➜ 擦り半
• sound as produced by this alarm

noun:

• fire alarm ringing continuously to warn that a fire is extremely near ➜ 擦り半鐘
• sound as produced by this alarm

noun:

• Hypogaleus (genus whose sole member is the blacktip tope, Hypogaleus hyugaensis, a hound shark of the family Triakidae)

noun:

• clean, freshly poured bath; hot water just poured into a bath that no one has entered yet

noun:

• someone (e.g. a woman) who is out of one's league; something beyond one's means

noun:

• plastic toy (e.g. fish) suspended in a sealed glass tube filled with fluid; toy for use in the bath - obscure term

noun:

• wooden rods (square, used in a pair) used in Kansai-area rakugo (e.g. to mark scene changes); small clapper

noun:

• under the tracks; area under the girders of a railway or highway (often used for shops, bars, etc.) ➜ ガード

noun:

• part of the shrine dedication ceremony at the Hachiman shrine in Yoshitomi, where articulated wooden dolls enact a sumo bout - Shintō term ➜ 紙相撲【かみずもう】

noun:

• child's seat which attaches to a table for eating - From English "table chair"

noun / ~する noun:

• being on stage when the curtain opens

noun:

• wooden floor; wooden-floored room
• thinly-sliced food grilled on a cedar board ➜ 板焼き

noun:

• in-house model; company model; model under an exclusive contract; model who works exclusively for a single fashion magazine

noun:

• projecting part (of a headland, etc.) ［でばな・出鼻］
• moment of departure; (on the) point of going out
• outset; start; beginning

adjectival noun / ~の noun:

• crushed flat; flattened; squashed; flat-topped - onomatopoeia

noun:

• flat-chested girl - colloquialism - manga slang
• sound of a sticky rice cake sticking to something - onomatopoeia

expression / godan ~す verb:

• to read too much into things; to get wrong ideas by letting one's imagination run wild; to have a groundless suspicion

~する noun:

• blowing air into a dive mask through the nose to clear out the water or equalize the pressure - From English "mask blow" ➜ マスククリア

noun:

• whole party; party as a whole

noun:

• (a) short story; short-story writer