noun:

• location without an address; unnumbered plot of land

noun:

• taking up a new line of work; the beginning of things
• starting the preparations for New Year's festivities (December 8 in Tokyo, December 13 in Kyoto)
• resuming work after the New Year's vacation ➜ 仕事始め

noun:

• type of Japanese hairstyle for young women (late Edo period)

noun:

• beginning-of-volume label; volume (header) label; volume header - IT term

noun:

• plan of action

noun:

• study of modern societies

noun:

• one's assessment of the situation - four character idiom

noun:

• rights to usage of one's likeness

noun:

• streak of good luck

noun / ~する noun:

• admonishing (one's master) at the cost of one's life

noun:

• sutra recitation at the bedside of a deceased person

noun:

• strong, immovable sense of morality; high moral character; chastity; virtue

noun:

• celebration for the completion of a project

noun:

• look of amazement; looking dumbfounded

noun:

• Republic of Haiti

noun:

• report of a lost article

noun:

• collage of pieces of colored paper

noun:

• the light of dawn

noun:

• abolition of slavery

noun:

• ball won in a game of pachinko ➜ パチンコ

noun:

• cry of a baby at its birth

noun:

• improvement of one's constitution; reformation - four character idiom

noun:

• hollow at nape of the neck

noun:

• running out of gasoline (petrol)

noun:

• chief of staff