noun:

• the kalpa of formation (the first aeon of the universe) - Buddhism term ➜ 四劫

noun:

• first shrine visit of New Year

noun:

• first half of the game or match

noun / ~する noun:

• leader of a charge; first to arrive

noun / ~の noun:

• first of the season (e.g. produce, catch)

noun:

• the first part of a poem or verse

noun:

• child born in first half of the year

noun:

• first wearing (of kimono) in the New Year

noun:

• first-year student of an elementary school

noun:

• shops on the first floor of a hotel - abbreviation

noun:

• first year of the sexagenary cycle (in Onmyōdō) ➜ 甲子・三革

noun:

• barony of the first degree
• influential feudal clan

noun:

• first segment of a chicken's wing; drumette ➜ 手羽先

noun:

• first page of a renka or renku ➜ 連歌・連句

noun / ~する noun:

• first shrine visit of the New Year ➜ 初詣

noun:

• (member of the generation born in) the first nine years of the Shōwa period (from 1926 to 1934) - four character idiom

noun:

• armor, helmet & shield (armour) - obscure term
• kakurei, kakuun & kakumei (first, fifth and fifty-eighth years of the sexagenary cycle; times of civil unrest according to Onmyōdō) ➜ 陰陽道

noun:

• first person to say something; first person to suggest something ➜ 言い出しべ【いいだしべ】

noun:

• one's first campaign; one's first battle

noun / ~の noun:

• dapple-grey (gray) (horse coat colour)

adverbial noun / temporal noun:

• first year; early years (of a reign or era)

noun:

• first obon following the death of a family member

noun:

• first adding of charcoal to the fire (tea ceremony)

expression:

• one of the 72 climates (from the 16th to the 20th of the first lunar month) ➜ 七十二候

noun:

• first person to say something; first person to suggest something