beginning

first generation

early spring ②first month of the lunar calendar

first number (e.g. issue of a magazine) ②No. 1 type

beginner

first day

beginning ②at first

first match (in a series)

first meeting

early days

first time ②first

pitcher's first pitch (to batter)

elementary

original intention

elementary

early summer ②fourth month of the lunar calendar

seeing for the first time ②sight-reading

first edition

beginning (of a century, etc.)

basics

for the first time ②only after ... is it ... ③first time

for the first time in one's life

beginning of month

first ②Introduction

from the beginning

beginning of the (fiscal) year

(it was) not until

New Year's ceremony in which a hoe is used to break ground in a field lying in a lucky direction

at first

first

first love

something heard for the first time

debut

first warbling heard in a New Year

debut

for the first time

world's first

first day returning to work after the New Years holiday ②first task at a new job

first in history

first experience (of something) ②first sexual experience

first sunrise of the year

debut

first championship win (esp. sumo)

first challenge

first (of its kind) in Japan

first flower of the season or year ②first menstruation ③woman who has just reached adulthood

first ears of rice of the season ②offering (to the gods)

(for the) first time in one's life

first dream of the year

one's first campaign

innocent

first grandchild

first childbirth

first child

for the first time ②first menstruation

meeting one's master for the first time (of a new servant)

first apprenticeship

to win one's first battle (game, match)

learning something new

to begin to

first calligraphy of the year

to fall in love at first sight ②to see for the first time ③to have sexual relations for the first time

start of a romance

weaning ceremony

outset

to begin to do

debut

to begin to love

to begin to grow light

first wearing (of new clothes)

bridge-opening ceremony

first shopping of the year

initial playing of an instrument in the New Year

weaning ceremony

to begin to blossom

weaning ceremony

baby's first steps ②opening to pedestrians (e.g. a new bridge)

outset ②resuming work after the New Year's vacation

first doing of ... (ever, in one's life, in the new year, etc.)

primitive element (of a finite field)

innocent