初

first

beginning

beginning

first day

first generation

early days

first match (in a series)

first performance

beginning of the year

first appearance

first 10 days of the month

pitcher's first pitch (to batter, or in the game)

first time

New Year's Tournament (held in Tokyo in January)

beginner

beginning (of a century, etc.)

first

for the first time

first calligraphy of the year

early summer

initial salary

first year

one's first campaign

first edition

debut

one's original intention

first meeting

basics

elementary level

past middle age

to begin to

first (of its kind) in Japan

nice to meet you

first business conducted by retailers in the New Year

first rank in the senior class (in martial arts, go, etc.)

first challenge

first shrine visit of the New Year

first love

(young and) innocent

origin

first meeting

elementary

early autumn (fall)

beginner-friendly

initial medical examination

first marriage

initial costs

elementary education

early winter

seeing for the first time

beginning

first month of the lunar calendar

beginning of the month

first market of the year

meeting for the first time

first "horse day" in any lunar month, but esp. the second lunar month

(for the) first time this year

first generation

for the first time

debut

first move (in shogi, go, etc.)

memorial service held on the seventh day following a person's death

from the beginning

for the first time

(it was) not until

commencing with

(for the) first time

to eat something for the first time in the season

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

losing one's virginity

wearing something for the first time

innocent

at first

first kiss

beginning

first Day of the Rat of the New Year

to fall in love at first sight

something heard for the first time

first snow (of the season)

learning (a subject) for the first time

learning something new

first sunrise of the year

to achieve one's first victory after a string of losses

to achieve one's first victory after a string of losses

first appointment (to a post)

first page of a renga or renku

start

initial response (e.g. to a crisis)

initial parts

first-time

original intention

beginning of the (fiscal) year

first year

first meeting

to begin to know

novice driver mark

world's first

beginning student

early endosome

initial default

founding member (of a music group, etc.)

founding member (of a music group, etc.)

start of a period (esp. financial)

first trial

debut

to begin to grow light

first year of Meiji era

first role

New Year firefighters' event

first shrine visit of the New Year

being in someone's service for the first time

selling something for the first time

menarche

initialization (of a variable)

initialization code

initial program

primitive element (of a finite field)

(for the) first time in one's life

debut

early

outset

first proof

the industry's first ...

comic sumo performance

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

new or raw recruit

first day returning to work after the New Years holiday

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

first sound of the year for an animal

beginning of the world

first train (of the day)

firstborn

first fruits

for the first time in one's life

first sale of the year

sky on New Year's morning

first in history

beginning of an epoch

bridal night

first word (of an infant)

first wearing (of kimono) in the New Year

earliest stage

initializer

early Christianity

initial point

winning one's first election

first eastern wind of the year

initialization section

first flower of the season or year

early spring