Sens du Mot 正月

twentieth day of the first month (end of New Year celebrations, upon which remaining New Year's food is eaten, decorations are stowed away, etc.)

first seven days of the year

New Year (esp. first three days)

feast for one's eyes

Little New Year (festival held on January 15)

January (according to the new calendar)

15th day of the New Year (when women would belatedly do their New Year's greetings or go back to their parents' homes; in Kyoto and Osaka)

New Year's decorations

putting on weight over the New Year's holidays

lunar New Year (esp. the Chinese New Year)

event in which young men and women paint each others' cheeks with black ink or soot during Koshōgatsu (in the San'in region)

as if the two busiest days of the year had come at the same time