Noun, Noun which may take the genitive case particle 'no'origin; beginning; genesis · primeval; primordial; primitive

Nounbeginning and end · doing something from beginning to end; being unchanged from beginning to end · from beginning to end; the whole time; throughout; consistently

Noun, Suru verb, Transitive verbcreation; founding; initiating

Nounbeginning of the year; new year · New Year's call; New Year's greetings

Nounbeginning of the month

Nounresuming work after the New Year's vacation; first time that one works in the year

Nounorigin

Noun, Suru verbrenewal; reform

Nounbeginninglessness · distant past

Noun, Suru verbstart; beginning

NounImperial New Year's Poetry Reading; annual New Year's tanka-reading party held at the Imperial Palace

NounImperial 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)

Nountaking up a new line of work; the beginning of things · starting the preparations for New Year's festivities (December 8 in Tokyo, December 13 in Kyoto) · resuming work after the New Year's vacation

Nounseeing for the first time; first sight

Nounceremony in which an abdicated emperor puts on informal court clothes (i.e. a kariginu and eboshi) for the first time

Nounannual New Year's poetry reading (held at the Imperial Court)

Nounyear-end and New Year holidays (e.g. from December 29 to January 3)

Nounrecord start

Expressions (phrases, clauses, etc.)start of deployment

Noun, Suru verbstart of broadcast; commencement of transmission; sign-on

Nounstart of a match; beginning of a game; kickoff

Nounstart of text; STX

Nounmarked section start

Nounstart of heading; start of header; SOH