noun:

• first period (e.g. first class in school day)

noun:

• broom (esp. one for sweeping a silkworm-raising room on the first Day of the Rat of the New Year)
• plant used for constructing brooms (e.g. kochia) ➜ 箒草
• liquor; alcohol; sake

noun:

• morning chill (of a summer's day) - archaism - obscure term ➜ 朝涼

noun:

• first session (trading day) of the year

counter:

• ~th period (e.g. ~th class in school day)

noun:

• morning chill (of a summer's day) - archaism

noun:

• burning of New Year's gate decorations (usu. on the 15th day of the New Year)

noun:

• Chrysanthemum Festival (the 9th day of the 9th lunar month) (one of the five annual festivals) ➜ 五節句

noun:

• first lighting of the hearth in a Zen temple (first day of the 10th or 11th month) ➜ 閉炉

noun / ~する noun:

• closing of the fireplace in a Zen temple (first day of the 2nd month) ➜ 開炉

noun:

• dawn (sometimes esp. in ref. to the 16th day of the lunar month onward) ➜ 夜明け

noun:

• burning of New Year's gate decorations (usu. on the 15th day of the New Year) ➜ どんど

noun / ~する noun:

• varsika (meditation retreat; usu. for 90 days starting on the 15th day of the 4th month of the lunisolar calendar) - Buddhism term

noun:

• inscription on the bathtub of King Tang ("If you can renovate yourself one day, then you can do so every day, and keep doing so day after day.")

noun:

• national holiday that has been moved to a Monday (e.g. Coming-of-Age Day) - From English "happy Monday" ➜ 成人の日

noun:

• summer (on the lunisolar calendar: 16th day of the 4th month to the 15th day of the 7th month) - Buddhism term

counter:

• ~th period (e.g. ~th class in school day) ➜ 限目

noun:

• (Nichiren Buddhism) memorial service for Nichiren (13th day of 10th month) ➜ 会式【えしき】

noun:

• west wind in the early spring (traditionally on the night of the 20th day of the second month of the lunar calendar); wind that blows seashells ashore [literal]

noun:

• the thirty guardian deities (a different one for each day)

noun:

• women's New Year (15th day of the first month of the year); New Year for women who were too busy to celebrate on the 1st (Kyoto-Osaka) ➜ 小正月

noun:

• the large number of bridges over canals and rivers in Naniwa (present-day Osaka) - four character idiom

noun:

• Burakumin (modern-day descendants of Japan's feudal outcast group)

noun:

• Satsuma (ancient province located in present-day Kagoshima prefecture)
• sweet potato (Ipomoea batatas) - abbreviation ➜ 薩摩芋【さつまいも】

expression / noun:

• collecting herbs and pulling out young pine trees by the roots (annual event held on the first Day of the Rat of the New Year)