２００８☆Happy New Year

January 1 is start of the year.


It is called “Oshougatsu” for a few days from January 1 in Japan.
There are many events and customs peculiar to this season.


Japanese eat rice cake boiled with vegetable

and they pay a visit to a shrine on New Year’s Day.





“Mochitsuki” is event peculiar to Japan, too.

Japanese write the New Year’s card.
But recently the people write the card decrease.
Many people send a E-mail.

It is sad Japanese traditional fade away, I think.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_Year