| 正月 | [しょうがつ, shougatsu] (n) New Year; New Year's Day; the first month; January; (P) #5,848 [Add to Longdo] |
| 数え | [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 #7,319 [Add to Longdo] |
| 若松 | [わかまつ, wakamatsu] (n) young pine; New Year's symbolic pine decoration; (P) #7,551 [Add to Longdo] |
| 初日 | [はつひ, hatsuhi] (n) New Year's Day sunrise #7,556 [Add to Longdo] |
| 年末年始 | [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 #10,573 [Add to Longdo] |
| 大晦日(P);大みそか | [おおみそか, oomisoka] (n-t) New Year's Eve; December 31st; (P) #17,040 [Add to Longdo] |
| お節;御節 | [おせち, osechi] (n) (See お節料理) food served during the New Year's Holidays [Add to Longdo] |
| お節料理(P);御節料理;おせち料理 | [おせちりょうり, osechiryouri] (n) food served during the New Year's Holidays; (P) [Add to Longdo] |
| お屠蘇 | [おとそ, otoso] (n) New Year's sake; spiced sake [Add to Longdo] |
| お年玉(P);御年玉 | [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) [Add to Longdo] |
| どんど;とんど | [dondo ; tondo] (n) burning of New Year's gate decorations (usu. on the 15th day of the new year) [Add to Longdo] |
| どんど焼き;どんど焼 | [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) [Add to Longdo] |
| ポチ袋;ぽち袋;点袋 | [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 [Add to Longdo] |
| 一年の計は元旦にあり;一年の計は元旦に在り | [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 [Add to Longdo] |
| 歌会始め;歌会始 | [うたかいはじめ, utakaihajime] (n) annual New Year's poetry reading [Add to Longdo] |
| 火祭;火祭り | [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 [Add to Longdo] |
| 賀状 | [がじょう, gajou] (n) New Year's card; (P) [Add to Longdo] |
| 鏡開き | [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. [Add to Longdo] |
| 恵方参り;恵方詣り;恵方詣(io) | [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 [Add to Longdo] |
| 迎春 | [げいしゅん, geishun] (n) New Year's greetings (lit [Add to Longdo] |
| 元三 | [がんざん, ganzan] (n-adv, n-t) New Year's period (January 1st to 3rd) [Add to Longdo] |
| 元正 | [がんしょう, ganshou] (n) (obsc) (See 元日) New Year's Day [Add to Longdo] |
| 元旦 | [がんたん, gantan] (n) New Year's Day; (P) [Add to Longdo] |
| 元朝 | [げんちょう, genchou] (n) New Year's morning [Add to Longdo] |
| 元日 | [がんじつ(P);がんにち, ganjitsu (P); gannichi] (n) New Year's Day; (P) [Add to Longdo] |
| 御歌会始 | [おうたかいはじめ, outakaihajime] (n) annual New Year's poetry reading (held at the Imperial Court) [Add to Longdo] |
| 御慶 | [ぎょけい, gyokei] (n) (New Year's) greetings [Add to Longdo] |
| 紅白歌合戦 | [こうはくうたがっせん, kouhakuutagassen] (n) annual singing contest held on New Year's Eve [Add to Longdo] |
| 講書始 | [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) [Add to Longdo] |
| 歳旦 | [さいたん, saitan] (n) New Year's Day [Add to Longdo] |
| 仕事始め(P);仕事始(io) | [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) [Add to Longdo] |
| 仕初め;仕初;為初め;為初 | [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 [Add to Longdo] |
| 四方拝 | [しほうはい, shihouhai] (n) Prayer to the Four Quarters (Japanese imperial New Year's ceremony) [Add to Longdo] |
| 歯固め;歯固(io) | [はがため, hagatame] (n) (1) tooth hardening toy (for infants); teether; teething ring; (2) tooth hardening meal; New Year's feast [Add to Longdo] |
| 事始め | [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 [Add to Longdo] |
| 若水 | [わかみず, wakamizu] (n) first water drawn from a well on New Year's Day [Add to Longdo] |
| 若湯 | [わかゆ, wakayu] (n) first hot bath on New Year's Day [Add to Longdo] |
| 十月十日 | [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) [Add to Longdo] |
| 春着 | [はるぎ, harugi] (n) springwear; New Year's clothes [Add to Longdo] |
| 初烏;初鴉 | [はつがらす, hatsugarasu] (n) crow cawing on New Year's Day [Add to Longdo] |
| 初空 | [はつそら;はつぞら, hatsusora ; hatsuzora] (n) sky on New Year's morning [Add to Longdo] |
| 初場所 | [はつばしょ, hatsubasho] (n) New Year's (January) sumo tournament, held in Tokyo; (P) [Add to Longdo] |
| 初凪 | [はつなぎ, hatsunagi] (n) first lull of the year; lull on New Year's Day [Add to Longdo] |
| 初富士 | [はつふじ, hatsufuji] (n) gazing at Mount Fuji on New Year's day [Add to Longdo] |
| 除夜 | [じょや, joya] (n) New Year's Eve [Add to Longdo] |
| 除夜の鐘 | [じょやのかね, joyanokane] (n) temple bell rung 108 times on New Year's Eve [Add to Longdo] |
| 松の内 | [まつのうち, matsunouchi] (n) New Year's Week (festivities) [Add to Longdo] |
| 松過ぎ | [まつすぎ, matsusugi] (n) after New Year's Week [Add to Longdo] |
| 松飾 | [まつかざり, matsukazari] (n) New Year's pine decoration [Add to Longdo] |
| 松飾り | [まつかざり, matsukazari] (n) New Year's pine decorations [Add to Longdo] |
