[しょうがつ, shougatsu] (n) New Year; New Year's Day; the first month; January; (P) #5848
[かぞえ, kazoe] (n) (abbr) (See 数え年・かぞえどし) old manner of reckoning one's age, newborns being considered a year old, with everyone adding one year to their age at New Year's #7319
[わかまつ, wakamatsu] (n) young pine; New Year's symbolic pine decoration; (P) #7551
[はつひ, hatsuhi] (n) New Year's Day sunrise #7556
[ねんまつねんし, nenmatsunenshi] (n) the New Year's holiday; the period encompassing the close of the old year and the start of the new year #10573
[さく, saku] (n) (1) new moon; (2) first day of the lunar month; (3) (in ancient China) next year's calendar and decrees (distributed by the Emperor at year's end) #13687
[おおみそか, oomisoka] (n-t) New Year's Eve; December 31st; (P) #17040
[おせち, osechi] (n) (See お節料理) food served during the New Year's Holidays
[おせちりょうり, osechiryouri] (n) food served during the New Year's Holidays; (P)
[おとそ, otoso] (n) New Year's sake; spiced sake
[おとしだま, otoshidama] (n) (See 年玉) New Year's gift (usu. money given to a child by relatives and visitors); (P)
[dondo ; tondo] (n) burning of New Year's gate decorations (usu. on the 15th day of the new year)
[どんどやき, dondoyaki] (n) (See どんど) burning of New Year's gate decorations (usu. on the 15th day of the new year)
[ポチぶくろ(ポチ袋);ぽちぶくろ(ぽち袋;点袋), pochi bukuro ( pochi fukuro ); pochibukuro ( pochi fukuro ; ten fukuro )] (n) (See お年玉・おとしだま) decorative paper envelope for giving New Year's gifts (usu. money given to children) and congratulatory gifts
[いちねんのけいはがんたんにあり, ichinennokeihagantanniari] (exp) the whole year's plans should be made on New Year's Day
[うたかいはじめ, utakaihajime] (n) annual New Year's poetry reading
[ひまつり, himatsuri] (n) (1) fire festival (often celebrating the absence of fires); (2) New Year's ritual at Izumo Shrine; (3) festival involving fire dedicated to the gods
[がじょう, gajou] (n) New Year's card; (P)
[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.
[えほうまいり, ehoumairi] (n) New Year's visit to a shrine or temple which lies in a favorable (favourable) or lucky direction
[げいしゅん, geishun] (n) New Year's greetings (lit
[がんざん, ganzan] (n-adv, n-t) New Year's period (January 1st to 3rd)
[がんしょう, ganshou] (n) (obsc) (See 元日) New Year's Day
[がんたん, gantan] (n) New Year's Day; (P)
[げんちょう, genchou] (n) New Year's morning
[がんじつ(P);がんにち, ganjitsu (P); gannichi] (n) New Year's Day; (P)
[こしゅ;ふるざけ, koshu ; furuzake] (n) well-cured sake; last year's sake; old sake
[ふるくさ, furukusa] (n) last year's grass; dead grass
[こちゃ, kocha] (n) last year's tea
[ごこうごみん, gokougomin] (n) (arch) land-tax system during the Edo period under which the government took half of the year's crop and the farmers kept the other half
[おうたかいはじめ, outakaihajime] (n) annual New Year's poetry reading (held at the Imperial Court)
[ぎょけい, gyokei] (n) (New Year's) greetings
[こうはくうたがっせん, kouhakuutagassen] (n) annual singing contest held on New Year's Eve
[こうしょはじめ, koushohajime] (n) Imperial New Year's Lectures (ceremony in which the emperor and members of the imperial family Their Majesties listen to expert lectures in the fields of human, social and natural sciences)
[くろたばいばい, kurotabaibai] (n) dealing in rice speculating on the year's harvest before seedlings are set out
[さいのわりに, sainowarini] (suf) considering he (she) is ... year's old
[さいたん, saitan] (n) New Year's Day
[さいばん, saiban] (n) year's end
[しごとはじめ, shigotohajime] (n) resuming work after the New Year's vacation; first time that one works in the year; (P)
[しぞめ, shizome] (n) (1) (See 手始め) outset; beginning; starting (things); (2) (See 仕事始め) resuming work after the New Year's vacation
[しこうろくみん, shikourokumin] (n) (arch) land-tax system during the Edo period under which the government took 40% of the year's crop and the farmers kept 60%
[しほうはい, shihouhai] (n) Prayer to the Four Quarters (Japanese imperial New Year's ceremony)
[はがため, hagatame] (n) (1) tooth hardening toy (for infants); teether; teething ring; (2) tooth hardening meal; New Year's feast
[ことはじめ, kotohajime] (n) (1) taking up a new line of work; the beginning of things; (2) starting the preparations for New Year's festivities (December 8 in Tokyo, December 13 in Kyoto); (3) (See 仕事始め) resuming work after the New Year's vacation
[しちこうさんみん, shichikousanmin] (n) land-tax rate during the Edo period, in which the government took 70 percent of the year's crop and the farmers kept 30 percent
[わかみず, wakamizu] (n) first water drawn from a well on New Year's Day
[わかゆ, wakayu] (n) first hot bath on New Year's Day
[とつきとおか, totsukitooka] (n) (1) babies born on October 10, supposedly conceived on New Year's Day; (2) normal gestation time (i.e. 9 months)
[はるぎ, harugi] (n) springwear; New Year's clothes
[はつがらす, hatsugarasu] (n) crow cawing on New Year's Day