Happy New Year!! 「明けまして、おめでとうございます。」

Happy New Year！！

So, I am going to refer to the custom in Japan for the new days.

In the most of case, all the family members gather once and have the traditional foods in a house. Then, on the first day of January they great each other with “Akemashite Omedetougozaimasu”.

After that, Osechi cousin is served on the table

Osechi cousin, gorgeous boxed-preserved foods.

This delicious and gorgeous foods are eaten among family members with the below soup

Ozo-ni, A Japanese soup dish for New Year

This is the typical soup in Kasai region. Each area and region have the different tastes and ingredient.

Normally, it has Omochi, rice cake.

Yammy!!!

Hatsumode, First visit of the year to a shrine

Traditionally, people is to visit shrine while praying to GOD that the good new year comes around this year. However, it can be so crowd to take long time to reach the shrine. I often

After praying, normally people receive “Omikuji”, a fortune-telling.

If you draw “Worst Luck”, keep receiving it till you draw “Great Luck”!! LOL.

Togerther in Kotatsu

Watching TV or chatting in Kotatsu, Japanese foot warmer with family members is typical of spending the precious moment being with family members. , A basket of tangerine is put In the center of kotatsu

Anyway, enjoy spending the new year days having family members!! This year, I will lie in Kotatsu, having tangerines until my hands can color orange.