Hanabi-taikai
(Fireworks display)
Harikuyo
(Needle memorial services)
Hatsuyume
(First dream of the New Year)
Hina-ningyo
(Dolls for the Doll's Festival)
Kadomatsu
(New Year's pine and bamboo)
Kagami-biraki
(The opening of New Year's rice cakes)
Kagami-mochi
(Round mirror-shaped rice cakes)
Keiro-no-hi
(Respect-for-the-Aged Day)
Kenkoku-kinen-no-hi
(National Founding Day)
Kenpo-kinenbi
(Constitution Day)
Kinro-kansha-no-hi
(Labor thanksgiving day)
Nanakusa-gayu
(Seven-herb rice porridge)
Ohagi
(Rice dumpling covered with bean jam)
Osechi-ryori
(Special side dishes)
Seijin-no-hi
(Coming-of-Age Day)
Setsubun
(The eve of the first day of spring)
Shichi-go-san
(A gala day for children of three, five and seven years of age)
Shimekazari
(Sacred straw festoon)
Shubun-no-hi
(Autumn Equinox Day)
Shunbun-no-hi
(Vernal Equinox Day)
Shusen-kinenbi
(The day commemorating the end of the war)
Taiiku-no-hi
(Health-Sports Day)
Tenno-tanjobi
(Emperor's birthday)
