Here’s the last meditation of the year from Hozouji, (I took this just a few days before heading home):

Now, I can’t type up the kanji for you because I’m using my sister’s computer (no Japanese script on here see) so you will have to make do with romaji. I think this is right (not sure as the calligraphy is a little funky):

Nenmatsu
Owari wo
Tsutsushimukoto
Hajimenogoto to nareba
Yaburerukotonashi

“Tsutsushimu” can be translated as “being careful”, “prudent” or “moderate” but it also can have the meaning of “temperance” (as in not overdoing the booze, fags and mince pies) which seems very appropriate as the Christmas party season commences. I am not sure however, what the “yaburerukotonashi” at the end is saying. Yabureru means to be defeated, to lose, to be beaten. As this is a Buddhist meditation, I’m assuming it’s referring to the self, in a very personal sense, some kind of self-defeat or failure. But is it referring to the future, in the sense of being undefeated (and thereby successful) in future endeavours? Or is it referring to past failures as in starting afresh with a clean slate? Or both? And if both – how the heck am I going to translate that? Masaya? Help!
Oh well, I think it might mean something like this:

At Year’s End
Finish things with care
To start afresh
Without regret