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**intifatry** · 01-14-2010, 11:01 PM

Thanks. My sensei calls that "keiko hajime", maybe he's just simplifying for us.

Nah, they're just two terms that mean basically the same thing. Anything that's the first of the year is given a "hatsu" prefix. First snow of the year, for example is "hatsu yuki". First Sumo tournament is "Hatsu Basho". At the same time, the first day back to work is "Shigoto hajime". "Hatsugeiko" literately means "first practice (of the year)", while the sense of "Keiko hajime" is "The beginning of (this year's) keiko."

FWIW, in the Yagyu-kai, we use "keiko hajime".

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intifatry Join Date Oct 2005 Posts 413 Senior Member	Thanks. My sensei calls that "keiko hajime", maybe he's just simplifying for us. Nah, they're just two terms that mean basically the same thing. Anything that's the first of the year is given a "hatsu" prefix. First snow of the year, for example is "hatsu yuki". First Sumo tournament is "Hatsu Basho". At the same time, the first day back to work is "Shigoto hajime". "Hatsugeiko" literately means "first practice (of the year)", while the sense of "Keiko hajime" is "The beginning of (this year's) keiko." FWIW, in the Yagyu-kai, we use "keiko hajime".
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