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] |