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O-sho-ga-tsu - Japan
by Dave McLane
29 December
Christmas in Japan is, well, Christmas in Japan. Santa Claus and decoration cakes. Kind of weird but OK.
Instead there are many bon-nen-kai parties where people take leave of all the problems of the year.
The main event is O-sho-ga-tsu which runs from about the 29th of December through the first three days of January. Many companies close and people stay home with their families except to go for the first visit to a shrine or temple.
This year Sueko and I are going to make a video of some boy scouts in Osaka doing Hayakumaben: they get in a circle and pass the beads of a giant (and I mean GIANT!) "jusu" (something like a rosary) while chanting the name of Buddha 108 times.
Dave McLane
<davidg@aegis.org>
Nagaokakyoshi, Kyoto Japan
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