annual New Year's poetry reading (held at the Imperial Court)
annual New Year's poetry reading
seeing for the first time; first sight
resuming work after the New Year's vacation; first time that one works in the year
filial piety begins with not harming one's own body (as one's entire body was given by one's parents)
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)
ceremony in which an abdicated emperor puts on informal court clothes (e.g. kariginu, eboshi)