本曲: (music) basic musical pieces for the shakuhachi flute, shakuhachi music or tune / 本局: main office

play (a stringed or keyboard musical instrument)

(slang) pistol; gun / tiddlywinks

to flick and make something spring/jump / (of materials) to reject; to repel (some external substance) / (from the metaphor of beating beads of an abacus) to calculate

begin; start; initiate; originate

conjunctive form of 始める (hajimeru) [ichidan]

Alternative spelling of 初めて

to start doing / to begin

(music) those pieces of traditional Japanese music composed primarily for the 尺八 (shakuhachi) flute, but also including the 胡弓(こきゅう) (kokyū, “Japanese bowed lute with three or four strings”), and the 琴(こと) (koto)

he / distal demonstrative, something far off removed from both speaker and listener: that / boyfriend