Torioi means driving off birds.  According to Miki, the photographer, it really looked like a bird being driven off in this event ^^This ritual started around 3 in the afternoon…

Christmas is now over, and some of you may feel as if festive season in winter came to an end, but our festive season is still on; remaining year end…

  It doesn’t feel to me like it’s new year’s eve already, but still I would like to have a quick look back over my experiences in 2013. My main…

Furusato Matsuri Festival Tokyo was held for 9 days in Tokyo last January, and ended with a great success, but there was an official announcement that it is coming back…

Yearend/new year is one of the busiest season for pubs and restaurants in Japan as all workers have either yearend or new year party or both!  Plus, it is not…

  The Japanese traditional new year decoration is formed by straw, special cord and other formed together, and it’s said that it wash old unclean things and welcome new god…

So Christmas is over now, and all we have to do as Japanese is serious cleaning for a coming new year!  (Argh…)  And this is going to be all today’s…

This is a Japanese traditional lion dance ornament.It is for new year decoration.   This is JAPAN Style! 

 This is a traditional Japanese New Year decoration, “Kagami mochi” ornament. Kagami mochi usually consists of two round mochi (rice cakes), the smaller placed atop the larger, and a daidai (a Japanese bitter orange)…

  Japanese people have the custom of getting a new lucky charm during our first visit of the year to a shrine or a temple. We have many kinds of…

Those who are starving before meal, let me appologise in advance because I’ll write about tasty food _(_^_)_ Today, I would like to introduce an article about ozoni, a traditional…