Vocabulary

first fruits

newborn baby

first ice of winter

first number (e.g. issue of a magazine)

new or raw recruit

first role

first flower of the season or year; first flowering on a plant

first ride (in a new vehicle, in the new year, etc.)

base fare (for a bus, train, taxi, etc.); minimum fare

start; first departure

first Bon Festival following the death of a family member

first wearing (of kimono) in the New Year

maiden voyage

initial velocity

menarche; first menstruation

first bath of the year

elementary course

fee for an initial medical examination

first ears of rice of the season; first crops of the season; first harvest of the season

first frost of the year

officers and men

officers and men

the shogunate

commander

scholarship fund

berry (e.g. grape, tomato, banana)

vigorous man; man in his prime

sublime, magnificent beauty

in the prime of manhood

manorial system

manorial system

loading (a firearm)

decorative

ornament; decoration

grace note

charging a gun (with gunpowder); charge of gunpowder

letter rack

envelope

rose garden

consummation of a marriage