You have identified a number of very important days of celebration or holidays in Japan. The Doll Festival is one of my favourites as it also happens to fall on my birthday (3 March). I actually lived in Japan for a year back in 2007-2008 and, when I was there I taught English as a second language to a group of women. On Hinamatsuri Day they created a special display with all of their ornamental dolls in one of the women's lounges. We all met at her house on the 3rd of March to view the dolls and to celebrate my birthday with traditional Japanese sweets.
I had a great day! Have you ever tried traditional Japanese sweets? They have an unusual texture but I love the flavour.
Thanks for taking the time to share your learning about Japanese celebrations. I am looking forward to reading about South Africa next!
Although I haven't been as lucky to have lived in Japan, I have visited during two of the festivals that you are showing above. The flower viewing festival is really beautiful and it is just like the pictures you see online - if not more pretty!
Another cool festival I saw, but don't know what it was, was in a small town on the east coast. They had a parade and lots of drum banging and colourful dancing and costumes. I wish we had some more stuff like that here. The whole town loved it!
Wow I never knew about all of these different festivals going on in Japan? Judging by what Rachel and Mark have commented they sound like a lot of fun! I agree with Mark especially, I wish we had more festivals like that here in New Zealand. Would you go along if we had festivals like these ones in NZ?
If you had to pick one of these Japanese Festivals, which do you think would like to go to the most? I think Tanabata, the Star Festival on July 7th sounds amazing. I'd love to know more about what that involves, maybe you could a blog about that sometime?
It's great to see this poster about Japanese festivals. As you know I lived in Japan for about 10 years, and for many of those years I joined people doing hanami, and celebrating on Omisoka. I remember one year, I lined up with some friends outside a Buddhist temple. When the gongs struck midnight, everyone went quiet and prayed...or something. I also remember during seijin-shiki seeing all the young women walking around town in their beautiful kimono.
Since coming back to New Zealand and having children, I have gone back to Japan to celebrate shichi-go-san, but we celebrate New Year in New Zealand.
Thanks for posting this and reminding me about Japan, Chavda. See you in February.
Hello Chavda I haven't been to Japan and I don't know much about the Japanese people. But thanks to you, I learnt about their celebrations. Keep up the amazing work! Daniel
Hi Chavda,
ReplyDeleteYou have identified a number of very important days of celebration or holidays in Japan. The Doll Festival is one of my favourites as it also happens to fall on my birthday (3 March). I actually lived in Japan for a year back in 2007-2008 and, when I was there I taught English as a second language to a group of women. On Hinamatsuri Day they created a special display with all of their ornamental dolls in one of the women's lounges. We all met at her house on the 3rd of March to view the dolls and to celebrate my birthday with traditional Japanese sweets.
I had a great day! Have you ever tried traditional Japanese sweets? They have an unusual texture but I love the flavour.
Thanks for taking the time to share your learning about Japanese celebrations. I am looking forward to reading about South Africa next!
Cheers,
Rachel ;)
Hi Chavda!
ReplyDeleteAlthough I haven't been as lucky to have lived in Japan, I have visited during two of the festivals that you are showing above. The flower viewing festival is really beautiful and it is just like the pictures you see online - if not more pretty!
Another cool festival I saw, but don't know what it was, was in a small town on the east coast. They had a parade and lots of drum banging and colourful dancing and costumes. I wish we had some more stuff like that here. The whole town loved it!
Keep up the great work!
Mark
Hi Chavda,
ReplyDeleteWow I never knew about all of these different festivals going on in Japan? Judging by what Rachel and Mark have commented they sound like a lot of fun! I agree with Mark especially, I wish we had more festivals like that here in New Zealand. Would you go along if we had festivals like these ones in NZ?
If you had to pick one of these Japanese Festivals, which do you think would like to go to the most? I think Tanabata, the Star Festival on July 7th sounds amazing. I'd love to know more about what that involves, maybe you could a blog about that sometime?
Until next time :-)
Dan.
Hi Chavda
ReplyDeleteIt's great to see this poster about Japanese festivals. As you know I lived in Japan for about 10 years, and for many of those years I joined people doing hanami, and celebrating on Omisoka. I remember one year, I lined up with some friends outside a Buddhist temple. When the gongs struck midnight, everyone went quiet and prayed...or something. I also remember during seijin-shiki seeing all the young women walking around town in their beautiful kimono.
Since coming back to New Zealand and having children, I have gone back to Japan to celebrate shichi-go-san, but we celebrate New Year in New Zealand.
Thanks for posting this and reminding me about Japan, Chavda. See you in February.
Mr Wong
Hello Chavda
ReplyDeleteI haven't been to Japan and I don't know much about the Japanese people. But thanks to you, I learnt about their celebrations. Keep up the amazing work!
Daniel