[しょうがつ, shougatsu] (n) New Year; New Year's Day; the first month; January; (P) #5848
[とら, tora] (n) third sign of Chinese zodiac (The Tiger, 3am-5am, east-northeast, January); (P) #9354
[いちがつ, ichigatsu] (n-adv) January; (P) #17929
[kamakura] (n) mid-January festival in northern Japan, with snow huts in which children play house; (P)
[テトこうせい, teto kousei] (n) Tet Offensive (North Vietnamese offensive launched in January 1968)
[かんく, kanku] (n) ninth day of the cold season (approx January 13th)
[かがみびらき, kagamibiraki] (n) (1) cutting the New Year's rice cake (January 11th); (2) traditional breaking of a sake cask at weddings, receptions, etc.
[かがみもち, kagamimochi] (n) mirror-shaped mochi, usu. a pair stacked in order of size with a daidai on top, used as a New Year offering, then cut and eaten on January 11.
[がんざん, ganzan] (n-adv, n-t) New Year's period (January 1st to 3rd)
[げんしさい, genshisai] (n) Shinto Festival of Origins (January 3rd)
[ごしちにち, goshichinichi] (n) January 8-14
[さんがにち, sanganichi] (n) first three days of the New Year (January 1st to 3rd)
[ななくさ, nanakusa] (n) (1) (abbr) (See 春の七草) the seven spring flowers; (2) (abbr) (See 秋の七草) the seven fall flowers; the seven autumn flowers; (3) (abbr) (See 七草の節句) the seventh of January; Festival of Seven Herbs
[ななくさのせっく, nanakusanosekku] (n) (See 五節句) Feast of the Seven Herbs of Health (7th of January); one of the 5 seasonal festivals
[はつばしょ, hatsubasho] (n) New Year's (January) sumo tournament, held in Tokyo; (P)
[はつがい, hatsugai] (n) (See 初売り) going shopping on January 2nd
[しゃんはいじへん, shanhaijihen] (n) (1) Shanghai Incident; January 28 Incident (1932); (2) Battle of Shanghai (1937)
[しんしょうがつ, shinshougatsu] (n) January (according to the new calendar)
[にんにち;にんび, ninnichi ; ninbi] (n) (See 五節句) seventh of January (lunar calendar) (one of the five annual festivals)
[せいじんのひ, seijinnohi] (n) Coming of Age Day (second Monday in January. Prior to 2000 was Jan 15); Adult's Day
[はやうまれ, hayaumare] (n) born between January 1st and April 1st
[おおさかかいぎ, oosakakaigi] (n) Osaka Conference; meeting held by the leaders of the Meiji Restoration in Osaka to discuss the formation of a representative assembly (January-February, 1875)
[だいいちじしゃんはいじへん, daiichijishanhaijihen] (n) Shanghai Incident; January 28 Incident (1932)
[もぐらうち, mogurauchi] (n) driving away moles by hitting the ground with straw bundles prepared by children (esp. as an annual event on January 15th)