Pictured above are three examples of maki zushi,special long uncut rolls of eho maki eaten during Setsubun the day before the start of Spring according to the old traditional calendar.This years Setsubun celebration fell yesterday and it seemed that ... ...full story at Porcelain Monkey
from Porcelain Monkey on Mon, Feb 04 2008
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| 28 Feb 08 |
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KCP International Study Abroad in Tokyo # 14 Setsubun »
YouTube video This is a short video from February
3rd at a shrine (whose name escapes me) where we got to take part in a traditional setsubun event.
Listen closely and you can hear "oni wa soto, fuku wa uchi" If you want to learn more about setsubun google it or if... |
| 03 Feb 08 |
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Setsubun Snow » La Fuji Mama Today is Setsubun in Japan. Setsubun is a holiday celebrated yearly on February 3, one day before the start of spring, according to the Japanese lunar calendar. One of the ways this day is celebrated is with a special ritual to chase away evil spirits,... |
| 25 Nov 08 |
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Entertainment › Maki Horikita learning English for role of amnesiac in new film » Japan Today Actress Maki Horikita, 20, will star in “Lost Memory,” a film directed by Hans Canosa, whose 2005 film “Conversations with Other Women” won the Special… |
| 10 Oct 08 |
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Entertainment › Maki Horikita looking for boyfriend as she celebrates 20th birthday » Japan Today Popular actress Maki Horikita this week was given a “20th Birthday Memorial and Appreciation Party” at a hotel in Tokyo. About 250 media people were… |
| 20 Aug 08 |
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Entertainment › Actress Maki Horikita to appear in new TV drama » Japan Today Actress Maki Horikita, 19, will appear in Fuji TV's new drama “Innocent Love” starting from October. The story follows Horikita's character whose parents are killed… |
| 26 Mar 08 |
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Maki Rinka at SXSW: My music works with alcohol »
Japan Times  Far from the glorious cacophony blasted out by the majority of the Japanese acts at South by Southwest, Osaka's Maki Rinka plays a coquettish, kitsch pastiche of 1950s and '60s jazz and good old Hollywood glamour. At the first of her two SXSW shows, at... |
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