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O-sho-ga-tsu // O-misuka - Japan
by Terumi
29 December
Terumi is here and she says:
O-shogatsu is January 1, 2, 3rd. O-misoka is December 31 and people usually eat a special kind of soba (noodles) called toshi-koshi-soba and think about the good year that has just finished. So toshi-koshi-soba is very long as people wish to have a long life.
In Kyoto, many people visit Yasaka Shrine at midnight on December 31 to get a six-threaded string on fire from the shrine which they take home still burning. They have to twirl the string all the way home to keep it burning! On the first day of the new year they light their (gas) fire and make O-zoni (miso soup with mochi).
Then on the first three days people eat O-sechi which food prepared ahead of time and kept in jubako ... a kind of three-tiered wooden lunch box. It's very delicous.
Terumi
Dave McLane
<davidg@aegis.org>
Nagaokakyoshi, Kyoto Japan
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