noun / ~する noun:

• New Year's Eve; end of the year

expression / noun:

• the year end; end of the year; last days of the year

noun:

• city-state

noun:

• year end

noun:

• doors and shoji (sliding doors with paper panes)

noun / ~の noun:

• appropriateness for one's age

noun:

• woman past her prime

expression / adverb:

• unbecoming to one's age - idiom

noun or verb acting prenominally:

• like an old man; like an old woman

noun:

• urban mine; discarded items which can be used as a source of resources

noun / ~する noun:

• forgetting the hardships of the old year
• year-end drinking party ➜ 忘年会

noun:

• gift certificate for books; book token

noun:

• mature woman; middle-aged woman

noun:

• first lunar month - obscure term ➜ 睦月

conjunction:

• if it happens that; if we make ...; if we take ...; if we assume ...; what if ...?

noun:

• senior's role

expression / noun or verb acting prenominally:

• older; elderly

adverb:

• annually; every year

noun:

• library science

expression / godan ~す verb:

• to enter a New Year

noun / ~の noun:

• urban-type; urban

noun:

• chief librarian

noun:

• library system - IT term

noun:

• annual festival

noun:

• sumo management stock; one of the 105 titled trusteeships in the Japan Sumo Association; tradable share that entitles the holder to take part in the management of sumo - Sumo term