notebook; memo pad; certificate; identification card
item; heading; category; headword (in a dictionary, encyclopedia, etc.); entry
approximately; about; promise; appointment; shortening; reduction
to decrease; to be reduced; to reduce; to lessen; to subtract; to deduct
big rock fight for children on the fifth day of the fifth month (adults also participated during the middle ages)
welcome rain; beneficial rain; blessed rain; rain that comes after a drought
twenty-second day of the month; twenty-two days
addition; adding; supplement
those (near the second person)
to be on the verge of; to be about to; to be on the point of
to lose; to miss; to forget; to be excessive
submitting to (a demand, one's fate, etc.); putting up with; resigning oneself to; accepting (without complaint)
not yet known; unknown; strange
clause; paragraph; argument; term (of an equation); (arch.) nape (of the neck)
first seven days of the year
towards (a destination); for the purpose of; with the goal of; targeting (a group, a demographic)
New Year's pine decorations
city councillor; city councilor; city assemblyman
logs in bark; rough wood; unseasoned timber; new lumber
base (of a plant, tree, pillar, etc.); (part near the) root; roots (of one's hair); root (e.g. of a problem); source
to lean against; to set against
trendy; in; now; currently at ...; now doing ...; in the middle of ...
good luck; fortune; happiness; harvest; yield
Man of the Year, referring to a man born in a year with the same Chinese zodiac sign as the current year
first water drawn from a well on New Year's Day
wrong; not good; hopeless; past hope; must not do
mochi offered when drawing the first water of the year
palm tree (any tree of family Arecaceae)
container; receptacle; vessel; packaging
the first and second; a few
bill; handbill; flier; flyer; leaflet; poster
thanks; gratitude; manners; etiquette; bow; reward; gift
for the first time; only after ... is it ...; only when ... do you ...; first time; (one's) first
certainty; reality; regular; permanent; samadhi (state of intense concentration achieved through meditation)
pull; patronage; tug; discount
to clean up; to clear away; to put in order
wall iris; roof iris; Iris tectorum; fleur-de-lis