New Year's Day; New Year's morning; morning of New Year's Day
head house (family); birthplace; originator
cooked rice; meal; food; one's living; livelihood
namasu; dish of raw fish and vegetables seasoned in vinegar
feast; treating (someone); to treat (someone, e.g. to a meal)
to place (in position); to fix; to install; to seat (someone); to settle (upon something); to fix (e.g. one's gaze)
four-legged tray for festive food
Fukuoka prefecture (Kyushu)
wife; bride; (one's) daughter-in-law
child; kid; (one's) child; offspring; young (animal); young woman; offshoot
Japanese amberjack (species of yellowtail, Seriola quinqueradiata)
to call out (to); to call; to summon (a doctor, etc.); to invite; to designate; to name; to garner (support, etc.)
daughter; girl (i.e. a young, unmarried woman)
custom; habit; customary practice
place; spot; address; district; area; one's house; point
Nagano prefecture (Chūbu area)
pine tree (Pinus spp.); highest (of a three-tier ranking system)
origin; source; base; basis; cause; ingredient; material
cheap; rash; thoughtless; careless
cloudiness; cloudy weather; fog (on a mirror, glasses, etc.); cloud (e.g. in marble); gloom; dejection
plain; field; hidden (structural) member; wild; lacking a political post
house; residence; family; household; lineage; family name
visiting ill or distressed people; writing get-well letters; get-well gifts; get-well letters; expression of sympathy; expression of concern
mid-year gift; summer gift
O-Bon; Obon; Bon Festival; tray
to deify; to enshrine; to pray; to worship
former; previous; old; first move (in go, shogi, etc.); opening move
ancestral spirit; collective of ancestral spirits which have lost their individualities; ancestor deified as a kami; spirit of a kami
offering (e.g. to the gods); votive offering
raw; uncooked; natural; as it is; unprotected (sex); live (i.e. not recorded); inexperienced
spirit of a deceased person; the Holy Ghost; the Holy Spirit
same; similar; (just) like; equal
Tōhoku region (northernmost six prefectures of Honshu); Tohoku region
Kanto region (incl. Tokyo, Kanagawa, Saitama, Gunma, Tochigi, Ibaraki and Chiba prefectures)
when it comes to; concerning (an area of expertise)
not limited to; not just ...
festival; feast; harassment by an Internet pitchfork mob; online shaming; galore (as in "goals galore"); frenzy
(before a) Buddhist altar; before the Buddha; offering placed on a Buddhist altar; incense money; condolatory offering
to offer; to sacrifice; to dedicate
eastern country; eastern provinces; Kanto provinces
-less; lacking; non-existing
person; someone; human beings; mankind; human (Homo sapiens); (other) people; others
even; even if; even though; because of; on the grounds that