Get To Know About Japanese New Year!

2017-12-14

Get To Know About Japanese New Year! Enjoy Anime Goods More with a Mini Column!

 

 

Mafuyu(^q^)/ :Hi guys! It’s Mafuyu from Goods Republic! Christmas is coming very soooon… but have you been preparing for the lovely one?

 

Mafuyu(^q^)/ :So…. We’ve been seeing more and more Anime goods related with the New Year as well as the Christmas, coming out in the Anime goods world! I bet you’ve been seeing them at Goods Republic too!

 

 

 

 

Rubber Strap  Shingeki no Kyojin / Eren Jaeger

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★Rubber Strap  Shingeki no Kyojin / Levi

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Mafuyu(^q^)/ :Are you wondering how your favorite anime chara are spending their time… I’ll share some of my knowledge about the New Year which makes the Japanese culture more fun!

 

 

Get To Know About Japanese New Year! Enjoy Anime Goods More with a Mini Column!

 

 

★Hagoita (Hanetsuki) / 羽子板(羽根つき)

 

Hanetsuki is one of the traditional games, which has been played in the New Year in Japan. Pair up someone and both of you hold the wooden board (Hagoita) in your hand and hit the feather (a ball) with each other. It’s a little like badminton.

 

The one who drops the feather or misses hitting is to lose. The one who loses usually get a graffiti on his/her face with ink.

 

 

 

 

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★Katamimochi / 鏡餅 

 

Kagamimochi is one of the New Year’s decorations to dedicate rice cake to Shinto and Buddhism, which is one of the most popular New Year’s decorations in the Japanese household. This can easily be available at any supermarket at this time of the year. They usually decorate it inside of the house.

 

 

 

 

★Hamaya / 破魔矢

 

Hamaya is a kind of arrow, which is famous as a New Year’s lucky charm. People usually get this from the temple or the shrine, hoping for safety for the year coming ahead. Of course, it doesn’t harm people but you should not point the arrow toward people.

 

 

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★Eto / 干支

 

It’s the Chinese Zodiac cycle expressing directions or time as combinations of twelve individual animals. In Japan, one animal out of twelve can be the yearly lucky charm animal.

 

The twelve animals consist of a mouse, cow, tiger, rabbit, dragon, snake, horse, sheep, monkey, rooster, dog or wild boar. The lucky charm animal for 2017 was a rooster, so it goes to a dog in 2018.

 

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★Mochitsuki / 餅つき

 

 

First, soften the steamed glutinous rice by pounding it, using the wooden mallet and the pestle. Then eat them with your family. It’s a traditional event for the New Year. The freshly-steamed glutinous rice is very hot, and it will become a very delicious rice cake by kneading it so many times and quickly.
 

The mallet is so heavy and the glutinous rice is so hot that it’s very hard for us to flip it over. If you want to make delicious rice cake, the two of them have to be in perfect sync.

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Mafuyu(^q^)/ :Oki-doki! Now you’ve got the perfect knowledge about the Japanese New Year, huh? Watch the anime goods or anime with these knowledge, and you might find something new…!! It might be a little early to say but please enjoy Goods Republic in New Year too! Alright then! We’ll see you at the next update!

 


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