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watch your step; slippery floor

1

superb or valuable book

1

Riho

2

peanut butter

1

open-air tea ceremony; aristocrat taking a break during a trip in a palanquin; something standing in the open

2

spreading out like an open fan; becoming prosperous; folding fan; ceremonial folding fan

1

Kota (India)

1

first shrine visit of New Year

6

good luck to come (omikuji fortune-telling result); future good luck

2

soba noodles eaten at night on New Year's Eve

1

prayer for school success

1

osechi; osechi-ryōri; traditional food eaten during the New Year's holidays

1

New Year's Eve; December 31

4

shooting game

1

Sakurai

2

well done!; bravo!; zenzai; red bean soup made with azuki beans

4

slightly good luck (as a fortune telling result)

2

to cook by steam

1

kinako; roasted soybean flour; roasted soy flour

1

purity; homogeneity; unadorned

13

chikuwa; tube-shaped fish paste cake

2

Christmas party

1

rice cakes; pounded mochi rice

1

sweet half sake; sweet drink made from fermented rice

1

New Year's Day; New Year's morning; morning of New Year's Day

1

tidying up; clearing up; cleaning up; clearing away; putting in order

2

red; crimson; red-containing colour (e.g. brown, pink, orange); Red (i.e. communist); red light (traffic); red ink (i.e. in finance or proof-reading); (in) the red

1

dessert stomach; having room for dessert despite being full

1

new menu item; new dish on a menu

1

excellent luck

2

thank you very much

1

ear; year

1

if you are so inclined; if it suits you; if you like

1

sub; substitute; reserve; sub-

1

thirty-first day of the month; thirty-one days

2

Merry Christmas

1

great success; roaring business; busy; packed-out

1

under blazing sun

1

wise saying; famous saying

1

such-and-such a place

2

fortune slip (usu. bought at a shrine)

1

if you insist (on it)

2

sesame seeds; sesame (Sesamum indicum)

1

newly arrived; newly joined; newly entered; newcomer

1

kotatsu; table over an electric heater (orig. a charcoal brazier in a floor well) with a hanging quilt that retains heat

1

concert band (as a school activity); wind ensemble

1

bird; bird meat (esp. chicken meat); fowl; poultry

1

omen; sign of luck; origin; history; dependent arising; doctrine that everything has a cause and there is nothing that arises out of nothing

1

kombu (usu. Saccharina japonica); konbu; kelp; any edible species from the family Laminariaceae

1

tea ceremony; Way of Tea

3