noun:

• Red and White singing contest; annual contest between male and female popular singers on New Year's Eve (sponsored and broadcast by NHK)

noun:

• first quotation for a stock at the first exchange meeting of the New Year
• initial share price during a public offering

noun:

• 15th day of the 1st, 7th and 10th lunar months ➜ 上元・中元・下元
• heaven, earth and man
• 1st January; New Year's Day

noun or verb acting prenominally:

• ternary - Chemistry term

noun / ~する noun:

• opening a new shop
• opening a shop (for the day)

noun:

• new straw; straw from the current year
• rice seedlings boiled and dried and then tied into a woman's hair to chase evil spirits away

noun:

• New Year's ceremony in which a hoe is used to break ground in a field lying in a lucky direction ➜ 鍬入れ

noun:

• the right to sunshine; in zoning, the right to have sunlight falling on one's building not be obstructed by new buildings

expression / ichidan verb:

• to penetrate a body (e.g. with a spear or bullet)
• to breathe new life into; to provide a potential solution

noun / ~する noun:

• praying for the coming of a deity
• ceremonial transfer of a divided tutelary deity to a new location ➜ 分霊

noun:

• fire festival (often celebrating the absence of fires)
• New Year's ritual at Izumo Shrine
• festival involving fire dedicated to the gods

expression:

• there must be a clear distinction between the upper and lower classes; even new shoes must not be worn on the head [literal] - proverb

expression / ichidan verb:

• to raise (hoist) a flag
• to raise an army
• to start a new business

ichidan verb / transitive:

• to expand a market; to find a new market

expression / adverb:

• with each new day; day by day; by the day - archaism

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)

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) - obscure term ➜ 子の日の遊び

noun:

• new moon - Astronomy term
• first day of the lunar month
• (in ancient China) next year's calendar and decrees (distributed by the Emperor at year's end)

noun / suffix noun:

• child
• young (animal) ➜ 仔【こ】
• young woman; young geisha - also 娘
• offshoot
• interest ➜ 元も子もない
• new shares - abbreviation ➜ 子株

noun:

• player who is not a dealer (in cards, mahjong, etc.) ➜ 親【おや】

noun / suffix noun:

• bird egg - archaism

suffix noun:

• -er (often of young women) - after a noun or -masu stem

noun / ~する noun:

• spanking

noun:

• traditional ceremony where the newly-wed wife, upon entering her new home, was hit on the rump with a straw bundle etc., to ensure her fertility

expression / ichidan verb:

• to break off with (e.g. one's lover) - idiom
• to be sharp enough to cut one's skin (of a new banknote, etc.)

noun:

• emerald tree monitor (Varanus prasinus, species of arboreal carnivorous monitor lizard found from New Guinea to Queensland, Australia); green tree monitor

noun / ~する noun:

• opening a hall for that day's business (museum, library, etc.)
• opening of new hall (museum, etc.)

noun:

• installation of a deity in a new shrine; transfer of a shrine

noun:

• door-to-door manzai; form of comedy orig. performed at people's homes by entertainers during the New Year festivities; precursor to modern day manzai ➜ 漫才

noun:

• new rice field; newly developed rice field
• wasteland or marshland newly reclaimed as a rice field (Edo period)