- My experience of aizome, dying Japan Blue
- Indigo, nicknamed Japan Blue, is an important color in Japanese culture. This is why I decided to visit Wanariya, a shop that allows visitors to make
- Valentine's Day in Japan: How and Why Do Japanese Women Give Chocolates to Men?
- For Valentine’s Day, girls offer chocolate to the boys they love. If you like manga or Japanese animation series, it’s a scene you may have seen many
- What to Look for on Hina Matsuri Dolls Displays
- Hina Matsuri, also called Dolls' Day or Girls' Day, takes place each year on March 3. Everywhere in Japan dolls are put on display to celebrate. But w
- A Quick Guide to 'Kagami Mochi', the Japanese New Year Traditional Decorative Cake
- During the end of the year and New Year’s holidays, you’ll see two donut-shaped objects with a mandarin on top of it. What is this snowman-like object
- “Karuta” a classic Japanese children's game
- There are many kinds of games played during Japan’s New Year. We have many “Oshogatsu” games to play during the New Year including ”Spinning top,
- The Japanese New Year’s dish, “Nanakusagayu.”
- Is this dish too simple for New Year’s festivities? “Nanakusagayu,” a dish from the Edo period. “Nanakusagayu” (rice porridge) is famously known
- Don’t miss the New Year’s fun lucky bags “Fukubukuro”!
- You don’t know what’s inside, but it’s also a part of fun. As you may notice that there are full of events on New Year in Japan as we have been i
- ”Hatsuyume,” the first dream you see on the night of New Year’s Day.
- Dream about good luck symbols! Mt. Fuji, a Hawk, and an Eggplant! In Japan,“Hatsuyume” is literally the first dream you see after December 31st a
- Osechi boxes for the New Year’s holidays, a Japanese food tradition.
- Traditional dishes for the Japanese New Year’s holiday are Osechi boxes with a variety of lucky foods. Beautifully set in compartments of layered boxe
- "Joya no Kane," the bells that ring out the old year and purify people's hearts on the last night of the year
- See the old year out with a calm and quiet heart How is everyone going to spend New Year's eve? Some of you will probably spend it at a countdown
- “Otoshidama” is the New Year’s gift that kids can’t wait for!
- It’s what kids receive on New Years day for pocket money! In Japan we have a custom called “Otoshidama,” when adults give kids money on New Years
- Clean away all of this year's mess! Do a GRAND HOUSE CLEANING to greet the god into your clean house
- Cleaning the house is a job for dad to do during his end of year holidays! Most people in Japan will start their New Year's holidays from about n
- The Kadomatsu Decoration,Towers of Pine and Bamboo Traditional of the Japanese New Year’s Holiday
- Kadomatsu is a decoration with three cut pieces of bamboo and pine for the Japanese New Year’s holiday. After Christmas, you will see this decoration
- Japan’s New Year “Oshogatsu” is to welcome the God Toshigami-sama, who brings abundance and happiness to each family.
- Oshogatsu is to welcome the deity, Toshigami-sama. What is Oshogatsu? In Japan, the Toshigami-sama deity comes to each family and promises abundance
- Eating “Toshikoshi Soba Noodles” on December 31st will give you good fortune?
- New years Eve (Omisoka) has arrived! In Japan we call the last day of the year, December 31st, Omisoka. This day is to rid oneself of negativity