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	The Japanese New Year (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		The Japanese New Year's celebrations evolved out of rituals associated with the changes of season, which are of utmost importance in Japanese farming.
		New Year's resolutions in Japan are made to bring prosperity and happiness for the future.
		Some of the most enjoyable New Year's dinners are either shabu-shabu -- where diners cook their own meals in a communal pan placed in the center of the table, selecting paper-thin sliced beef, fish and vegetables from trays placed on the table -- or mixed sushi.
	www.holymtn.com /astrology/JapaneseNewYear.htm (773 words)

	Japanese New Year
		New Year's Eve (o-misoka) was also a time for spiritual cleansing, and today many visit temples to hear the bell toll 108 times, one for the elimination of each human vice.
		One of the most famous prints of a New Year's sunrise is the masterpiece by Choki, which shows a single courtesan holding the collar of her kimono as she watches the sun rise over the sea.
		Japanese prints of the takarabune are a constant, seasonal theme from the eighteenth century on, and no doubt those surviving are but a small representation of the total number made for use.
	www.artelino.com /articles/japanese-new-year.asp (3264 words)

	Japanese New Year - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The Japanese New Year is a traditional festival which has been celebrated for centuries and has its own unique customs.
		The New Year traditions are also a part of Japanese poetry, including haiku and renga.
		Since the traditional new year was later in the year than the current date, many of these mention the beginnings of spring.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Japanese_New_Year (1133 words)

	Japanese New Year
		In ancient time, Japanese New Year was the same as Chinese or Korean New Year.
		New Years Day is a traditional festival which has been celebrated for centuries.
		Japanese have a custom of sending New Years Day postcards to their friends and relatives.
	www.ebroadcast.com.au /lookup/encyclopedia/ga/Ganjitsu.html (497 words)

	Festivals & Holidays
		While New Year's Day is a holiday in many parts of the world, the occastion has a unique significance to the Japanese, who take the opportunity to begin anew many aspects of their lives.
		The New Year's Day symbolizes the birth of the nation and thus on the first day of the year, the people are particularly inclined to worship.
		This belief respecting the beginning of the year, and the association with the birth of the Nation, are factors that made Hatsumairi popular and significant in the country.
	mothra.rerf.or.jp /ENG/Hiroshima/Festivals/27.html (2058 words)

	New Year's in Japan
		The official New Year falls on January 1st, however, in actuality the season itself runs from the 31st of December through the 3rd of January.
		New Year's Eve is a big occasion and one of the highlights of the season.
		The charms are usually good for a year and there are places in the shrine compound to deposit the old charms from the year past, which are ceremoniously burned after the New Year's season.
	tanutech.com /japan/newyear.html (1305 words)

	Japanese New Year - Crystalinks
		In ancient times, the Japanese New Year (shogatsu) followed the same lunisolar calendar as Chinese or Korean New Year (at the beginning of spring).
		Although these New Year's cards have become a widely-observed custom, its original purpose was to give your faraway friends and relatives tidings of yourself and your immediate family.
		There also haiku that celebrate many of the "first" of the New Year, such as the "first sun" (hatsuhi) or "first sunrise", "first laughter" (waraizome - starting the New Year with a smile is considered a good sign), and first dream (hatsuyume).
	www.crystalinks.com /japanewyear.html (788 words)

	Japanese New Year - New Year in Japan
		Bonenkai litarelly means a "Forget-the-year party" to forget the unpleasant memories of the passing year and to welcome the New Year with a fresh and serene mind.
		The reason people do the cleaning in the middle of winter is to get rid of the dirty of the passing year and to welcome the New Year with a fresh and serene mind.
		Shogatsu is the celebration of the New Year and is the most important holiday in Japan.
	www.japaneselifestyle.com.au /culture/new_year.html (597 words)

	New Year
		Chinese New Year is generally celebrated with fire-crackers, and in some places with a parade.
		Because consuls were chosen in January, and because years were named after the consuls who served in that year, January became the de facto beginning of the year.
		In Kenya, the new year is greeted by many in Watchnight Services in church, with bellringing, hugs and embraces, on the dot of midnight.
	www.geocities.com /worldkigo/newyear.html (725 words)

	Background Essay no. 50 \| Japanese New Year \| AskAsia.org
		For us children, the first indication of the approach of New Year's came when our mother pulled out our festival kimonos to make sure they still fit --she usually had to adjust the shoulders and waists to accommodate our growth over the preceding year.
		According to tradition, the New Year's god is not to be disturbed by the sounds of cooking for the first three days of the New Year, and most stores were closed for the first week of the year back then, so there was a lot of cooking to do.
		Pre-prepared New Year's foods are sold at department stores and have become very popular because women now often lack the time or ambition to prepare the traditional foods themselves but still want to be able to serve them.
	www.askasia.org /teachers/essays/essay.php?no=50 (1640 words)

	Japanese New Year
		New Year (shogatsu or oshogatsu) is the most important holiday in Japan.
		Consequently, all duties are supposed to be completed by the end of the year, while bonenkai parties ("year forgetting parties") are held with the purpose of leaving the old year's worries and troubles behind.
		On New Year's eve, toshikoshi soba (buckwheat noodles), symbolizing longevity, are served.
	www.japan-guide.com /e/e2064.html (398 words)

	WCAV \| Japanese New Year (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		In ancient times, the Japanese New Year (正月 shōgatsu) followed the same lunisolar calendar as Chinese or Korean New Year (at the beginning of spring).
		New Year's Day is a traditional festival which has been celebrated for centuries and has its own unique customs.
		Japanese have a custom of sending New Year's Day postcards (年賀状, nengajō) to their friends and relatives.
	www.charlottesvillenewsplex.tv /unclassified/1154592.html (661 words)

	Japanese New Year
		However, in rural Japan, villagers continue to follow the lunar calendar and Oshogatsu is the Lunar New Year.
		Everything associated with the New Year is symbolic of "firsts" of the new year.
		It is called "otoshi-dama" or the "new year treasure." Children also play various games to usher in the New Year.
	www.familyculture.com /holidays/japanese_new_year.htm (298 words)

	Japanese New Year Traditions Around the World at FatherTime's Net.
		The Japanese celebrate the New Year on January 1, but they also keep their beliefs from Shinto their religion.
		When the New Year begins, the Japanese people begin to laugh, and this is supposed to bring them good luck in the New Year.
		There are two festivals to mark the New Year in Japan these are the Greater and the Lesser.
	www.fathertimes.net /japanesenewyear.htm (388 words)

	JAPANESE CULTURE
		Traditional Japanese weddings based on the Shinto religion are major occasion with wearing of the Japanese kimono including the wedding kimono.
		New Year in Japan is an important family time of the year and there are many traditions involved.
		Shichi-go-san is a festival celebrated by parents on the fifteenth of November in Japan, to mark the growth of their children as they turn three, five and seven years of age.
	www.japaneselifestyle.com.au /culture/culture.html (372 words)

	New Year's Celebration in Japan - TOPICS Online Magazine
		So, at the very end of the old year and the beginning of the new year, it is very crowed in trains, in airplanes, and on highways as we gather with families.
		The traditional Japanese New Year celebration is being celebrated less and gradually becoming simpler like everything is changing over the generations, but it is still dear to us.
		We are trying to keep initiating it into each new generation because it has always been one of the most important events for Japanese.
	www.topics-mag.com /internatl/holidays/japan/newyear-japan.htm (483 words)

	Introduction to the Japanese New Year - "Oshogatsu" - jReference: General culture, language, and basic ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Japanese New Year is full of culture and would be much like Christmas is to many cultures.
		The equivalent of "spring cleaning" Japanese households are cleaned thoroughly towards the beginning of the New Year.
		New charms are then purchased and to wishes for the New Year are made.
	www.gate39.com /jreference/oshogatsu.aspx (652 words)

	Osechi - Japanese New Year's cuisine - bento.com
		Of all the annual holidays in Japan, the New Year (o-shogatsu) is often spoken of as the "most Japanese" of celebrations.
		With a history reaching back a thousand years, the traditional New Year's celebration is sprinkled with symbolism, and that symbolism is particularly evident in typical New Year's food.
		Osechi ryori was originally a way for housewives (and their families) to survive the first several days of the New Year, when stores throughout Japan were closed.
	www.bento.com /fexp-osechi.html (686 words)

	BBC - h2g2 - The Japanese New Year
		The New Year in Japan is the greatest event of the year, probably the equivalent of Christmas in the West.
		This is a white postcard with New Year's greetings and maybe pictures of the animal of the year on it.
		The animal is the same as for the Chinese New Year - for example, 2003 is the year of the sheep.
	www.bbc.co.uk /dna/h2g2/A929810 (1274 words)

	CSULB Online 49er: v10n60: Little Tokyo celebrates Japanese New Year
		As the year 2003 nears, students at Cal State Long Beach are beginning to think of what to do on New Year’s Day.
		New Year’s Day is designated a national holiday to celebrate the beginning of the new year.
		Families, relatives and friends get together to celebrate and exchange New Year’s greetings, prayers are offered at shrines and temples, and houses are decorated with shimekazari, sacred straw tassels, and kadomatsu, gate pine, both symbolic of happiness and purity.
	www.csulb.edu /~d49er/archives/2002/fall/news/v10n60-lit.shtml (541 words)

	Japanese New Year's marks hope - The Honolulu Advertiser - Hawaii's Newspaper
		Japanese New Year's is a time when everyday things suddenly are transformed into objects of deep religious meaning.
		New Year's transforms the Japanese, the majority of whom report that they are not religious, into a nation of people praying to the gods and buddhas.
		As one year of life comes to an end, never again to be recovered, people turn on the fires of the religious imagination and see in the most mundane things the best and the brightest hopes for the new year.
	the.honoluluadvertiser.com /article/2005/Jan/08/il/il13p.html (547 words)

	Japanese New Year
		New Year’s is the most important and elaborate of Japan’s annual events.
		Most Japanese people are on vacation during this three-day holiday and they take this opportunity to begin anew many aspects of their lives.
		New Year’s day is a quiet day spent at home with the family.
	www.bridgewater.edu /~dhuffman/soc306/s02grp1/index2.html (483 words)

	Japanese New Year's Cuisine
		Because Japanese food is closely linked with the seasons, this column will provide information about seasonal ingredients and various ways of using them in Japanese cooking.
		The New Year is considered the most important holiday of the year in Japan and is celebrated for three days from January 1 through 3.
		The dishes were to be prepared before the New Year, when the toshigami descended to the mortal world.
	www.moscowfood.coop /archive/newyears.html (895 words)

	CBC News Indepth: New Year's Day
		New Year's Day, as celebrated on the first day of January each year, is primarily a western tradition.
		Japanese New Year's celebrations marry traditional Shinto customs with contemporary modes of celebration.
		Austria's New Year's Eve celebrations are called Sylvesterabend, referring to the Eve of Saint Sylvester.
	www.cbc.ca /news/background/newyear (607 words)

	Ed's Photos of Japan: A Japanese New Year
		They were returning to their hometowns to celebrate the New Year with their families, to give the first prayer of the year at a shrine or temple near their ancestor's lands.
		In the first three days of the New Year, 88 million people, or 7 out of every 10 people in Japan, will visit a major shrine or temple.
		They were thinking about home and family, while I played with ideas on how to best record this once a year event, the one time of year when Japan seems turned upside down--the city of Tokyo is barren, while the countryside is filled with New Year's revellers.
	www.iipix.com /japan/newyear/index.html (189 words)

	Japanese New Year WebQuest
		This is a webquest for Japanese New Year.
		Japanese custom - Here is to see what Japanese people do in New year.
		It's the same for understanding a topic as broad or complex as Japanese New Year: when you only know part of the picture, you only know part of the picture.
	www.kn.pacbell.com /wired/fil/pages/webjapaneseik.html (825 words)

	Japanese New Year's food - Japanese holiday food (via CobWeb/3.1 planetlab1.tamu.edu) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Japanese New Year's food is called osechi-ryori, and consists many different kinds of dishes.
		It's a Japanese tradition to eat osechi-ryori throughout the New Year's holidays (until Jan. 3.) Traditionally, people finish cooking osechi dishes by New Year's Eve so they have food for a couple days without cooking.
		Japanese New Year's food - Japanese holiday foodNew Year's food recipes - osechi ryori - Japanese foodJapanese new year food - new year dish - osechi - rice...
	japanesefood.about.com.cob-web.org:8888 /od/japanesenewyearfood/a/newyearfood.htm (416 words)

	LA Downtown News Online
		The Japanese American Cultural and Community Center will offer children a peek inside the annual Oshogatsu celebration, or Japanese New Year.
		Participants will learn the traditions of celebrating the new year with food, games, decorations and ceremonies, and will be treated to a performance by local artists.
		They may not be reproduced or retransmitted without permission of the Los Angeles Downtown News.
	www.ladowntownnews.com /articles/2004/12/27/news/news_briefs/at05.txt (122 words)

	TFL: Japanese: Happy New Year!
		The city of Kirkland is home to a largely professional community, with an increasing number of new residents moving to the area for its high-tech industries.
		Birkland teaches Japanese in one of the junior high schools, Japanese is Lake Washington's fastest growing language program.
		Birkland schedules the Japanese New Year's unit to coincide with the celebration of this culturally important holiday.
	www.learner.org /channel/libraries/tfl/japanese/birkland/profile.html (666 words)

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