Vocabulary

first cockcrowing of the year

mouse

for the first time; first thing; doing something for the first time

gazing at Mount Fuji on New Year's day

scenery seen on the morning of the first day of the year

first eastern wind of the year; first eastern wind of the spring

sweets for offering at the Dolls' Festival

sweetened rice-flour cakes for offering at the Dolls' Festival

crosscut plank

bracket saw; sabre saw; saber saw

saw with a spine; tenon saw; back saw

farming implement

rows of torii gates (e.g. at Kyoto's Fushimi Inari shrine); torii corridor

twentieth day of the first month (end of New Year celebrations, upon which remaining New Year's food is eaten, decorations are stowed away, etc.)

ninth day of the cold season (approx January 13th)

fire festival (often celebrating the absence of fires)

first calligraphy of the year

divination that predicts the events of the whole year (esp. concerning crops)

to raise a girl is costlier than one would expect (like how a small bag can hold more than it seems); small bag and young woman

coin purse

dried stretched abalone flesh

chōgin (Edo-period silver coin shaped like a sea cucumber)

buckwheat cookie

Mikawa manzai; style of manzai originating in the Mikawa region in Aichi prefecture

ellipsis points (e.g. ...); suspension points; apostrophe

important intangible folk culture asset

confessor

cleaning utensils

drug development

blunt slipper lobster (species of shovel-nosed lobster, Scyllarides squammosus)

scavenging

Asian constable (species of butterfly, Dichorragia nesimachus)

confessor

chlorinated; chlorine

free-flowing (hot spring, irrigation, etc.); non-cyclic

commonness; the common touch

exchange value

abstract human labour; abstract human labor

fetish character (in Marx's commodity fetishism)

paper output (of a printer, photocopier, etc.); paper ejection