noun:

• variant Creutzfeld-Jakob disease; vCJD ➜ クロイツフェルトヤコブ病
• new variant Creutzfeld-Jakob disease; nvCJD

noun:

• mirror-shaped mochi, usu. a pair stacked in order of size with a daidai on top, used as a New Year offering, then cut and eaten on January 11.

noun / ~する noun:

• using a new brush for the first time
• doing something for the first time
• man losing his virginity (esp. to an older woman)

noun:

• age of the moon; number of days since the new moon
• age in months (esp. of an infant)

noun / ~する noun:

• intake (e.g. of salt); ingestion
• absorption (e.g. of new knowledge); adoption (e.g. of foreign culture); assimilation
• reception and protection - Buddhism term

noun:

• swallowing a great amount of tea or medicine
• tea prepared for the New Year with the first water of the year - abbreviation ➜ 大服茶

godan ~す verb / intransitive verb:

• to make a fresh start; to turn over a new leaf
• to call again; to visit again; to come again

noun / ~する noun:

• branch family; cadet family; setting up a branch family
• leaving one's employer to set up a new shop with the same name ➜ 暖簾分け

noun:

• separate house - archaism

noun:

• pidgin; creole; new language created by blending two or more existing languages (e.g. Afrikaans) - Linguistics term
• contamination; creation of unorthodox words or phrases by combining terms of similar form or meaning - Linguistics term ➜ コンタミネーション

noun:

• Mount Penglai; Penglai Island; enchanted land of perpetual youth from Chinese mythology
• sacred mountain (e.g. Mount Fuji, Mount Kumano, etc.) ➜ 三蓬莱
• Kansai New Year decoration (made from food) - abbreviation ➜ 蓬莱飾り
• Formosa; Taiwan

noun:

• Griffiths' pygmy-goby (Trimma griffithsi, found in the Indo-West Pacific); princess pygmy goby (Trimma marinae, found in Japan, New Guinea and Palau)

noun:

• notification of separation from family register; notification of creation of a new family register

noun:

• compared to our company's products (a phrase often used in advertising when comparing old and new products); in this company's comparison
• as I see it; by my estimate - colloquialism

noun:

• first lunar month ➜ 睦月
• first month
• first moon of the month; new moon

godan ~す verb / transitive:

• to set out; to set sail
• to embark on (a new venture); to set out (to achieve something)
• to begin to ride
• to lean forward

noun:

• Twenty-Five Histories; authoritative collection of twenty-five Chinese historical books (the Twenty-Four Histories and the New History of Yuan) ➜ 二十四史

~する noun:

• to produce (e.g. movie, play, show, event, musical recording, etc.); to design (e.g. new commercial product, restaurant concept, etc.); to create

noun / noun or verb acting prenominally:

• production; creation; design ➜ プロデュース料【プロデュースりょう】

noun / ~する noun:

• holding a course (of lectures); offering a course
• beginning a series of one's lectures; starting a new course

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 / ~する noun:

• opening (of a new road, railway, etc.); going into operation (e.g. telephone communication); beginning services
• reopening (e.g. a road to traffic); resumption of services

adverbial noun / temporal noun:

• all day long

temporal noun:

• last day of the month; last day of the year; New Year's Eve

noun:

• East Asian age reckoning; traditional system of age reckoning whereby newborns are considered one year old and on New Year's Day one year is added to everyone's age

noun:

• East Asian age reckoning; traditional system of age reckoning whereby newborns are considered one year old and on New Year's Day one year is added to everyone's age - abbreviation ➜ 数え年【かぞえどし】

noun / ~する noun:

• breaking ground; ground-breaking (ceremony)

noun:

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

noun:

• Imperial New Year's Lectures (ceremony in which the emperor and members of the imperial family Their Majesties listen to expert lectures in the fields of human, social and natural sciences)