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	NationMaster - Encyclopedia: Osechi
		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.
		Osechi ryori is a New Year’s assortment of especially prepared seafood, vegetables and other dishes beautifully displayed and presented in multi-tiered lacquered trays that come stacked together.
		Osechi ryori is special food often cooked at home to celebrate New Year, one of the most important of Japanese festivals.
	www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/Osechi (779 words)

	osechi
		But, hopefully, by "omisoka", the last day of the New Year, all osechi foods will be safely tucked away in their respective boxes, so that, when the temple bells all across Japan release their 108 booms, all the hard work can become a feast for everyone to enjoy.
		Most stores offer osechi either as individual dishes or as sets, and many pass out elaborate catalogs to make the selection as easy as pulling out your wallet, which better be stuffed if you plan on ordering osechi as a set.
		Unlike in the old days when osechi was served for breakfast, lunch, and dinner three days in a row, times for eating osechi now vary from family to family and from day to day.
	www.snakelyone.com /osechi.htm (2824 words)

	Osechi - Japanese New Year's cuisine - bento.com
		The high-end osechi food is made by famous chefs (or more likely, famous restaurants), and - typical of Japanese custom - is limited in production.
		(Unfortunately, regardless of how much osechi I've eaten I haven't seemed to have gotten any smarter, richer, or more industrious.) The basic components are the same, but regional differences are reflected in the sweetness or saltiness of the flavoring and the use of local ingredients.
		The more elaborate osechi will have vegetables arranged in ornate designs, representing seasonal shapes such as pine cones and plum flowers.
	www.bento.com /fexp-osechi.html (686 words)

	eG Forums -> Osechi ryouri
		We have a decade long battle over whether to have clear soup with chicken, komatuna, grilled mochi and yuzu, or white miso with round mochi, daikon, and buri decorated with a mountain of tororo konbu and katsuobushi.
		I sometimes wonder how many Japanese make all of the osechi from scratch, I would estimate it to be pretty low especially in the cities.
		For anyone who doesn't know--or in case my spelling is incorrect--osechi is traditional new year food that is often arranged in stacked trays with a lid on top, forming a tall box.
	forums.egullet.org /index.php?showtopic=29754 (2600 words)

	OSECHI-RYOURI
		But in general, osechi is regarded as foods in New Year days.
		Now people call foods made for the New Year days and stuffed in "jubako" which is a three-tier nest of lacquered boxes for cooked food.
		These foods is said to be present osechi.
	markun.cs.shinshu-u.ac.jp /japan/f_custom/shougatu-e.html (321 words)

	New Year’s at the In-Laws in Japan by Mike Rogers
		This was also a problem for heavy drinkers (like me) since everything was closed, that meant you couldn’t get an aspirin to save your life.
		You see, in Japan, the women have had to work their fingers to the bones for all those years — and Japan used to be a desperately poor country — so all the women got together and decided that they’d all take off from January 1
		I woke up in the morning and walked downstairs and there on the floor were seven or eight Japanese guys passed out drunk as a skunk — and it was only 10 AM.
	www.lewrockwell.com /rogers/rogers194.html (743 words)

	FightingArts.com - Cooking Osechi Ryori
		Along with all of these expensive delicacies, and as a decorative touch, there were three cocktail franks carved into the shape of octopuses which my young nieces automatically claimed with glee, and then shouted for more.
		Noted that magazines were now introducing innovations like "Western style osechi" or "Chinese style osechi." Still kept to the traditional Japanese style, and felt some amount of scorn for those who were copping out with these "new varieties." But did drop some of the more expensive delicacies that nobody wanted to eat anyway.
		While osechi ryori differs by region and from family to family, the food has a lot in common.
	www.fightingarts.com /reading/article.php?id=404 (1333 words)

	OSECHI 8
		This is an alcoholic drink which we serve with osechi.
		Drinking otoso is said to drive out evil spirits, and we drink it before eating osechi with our families as a kind of toast.
		The middle is thicker than the ends, and eating with them is said to bring prosperity to one's descendants.
	www.shejapan.com /jtyeholder/jtye/living/osechi/osechi8.html (70 words)

	Osechi - Definition, explanation
		Osechi was made within the last year and women didn't cook in the New year.
		In the early days Osechi consisted only from nimono, cocked vegitable with shoyu and suger or mirin.
		Today Osechi means anything prepared specially to the new year, and some foreign dishes are adopted under the name of Seiyoosechi (westernized osechi) or Chinese style osechi (chukafu osechi).
	www.calsky.com /lexikon/en/txt/o/os/osechi.php (300 words)

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		For example, "Osechi" and rice cake are there.
		Although they make "Osechi", but they usually make them on the New Year's Eve.
		It is because people don't become bored with the food.
	www.msu.edu /user/inoueeri/first.html (385 words)

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		"Osechi" is the most famous traditional food, and many kinds of food are assorted in the case like lunch boxes.
		Men and children like New Year's day, because men don't have to go to their companies.
		It is assorted because people don't become bored with the food.
	www.msu.edu /user/inoueeri/final.html (405 words)

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		In Europe and North America Christmas is one of the biggest annual events, but here in Japan New Year's is, by far, the most important and elaborate holiday.
		The dishes served vary from region to region but among the most common ones include kazunoko(herring roe), kuromame(stewed fl soybeans), datemaki
	www.jun-gifts.com /others/culturalcalendar4/culturalcalendar4.htm (1612 words)

	Japan-101.com - Japan Information Resource
		A traditional meal called "Osechi" is a traditional meal eaten at New Years.
		These are typically somewhat expensive to purchase, but on this most important day large expenses can be justified.
		Each portion of the meal has an important meaning such as long life or wealth.
	www.japan-101.com (1125 words)

	Osechi - Japanese New Year's Meal - Japanese Food
		Osechi - Japanese New Year's Meal - Japanese Food
		Osechi is a traditional Japanese New Year's meal.
		Look forward to more links, resources, and shopping information as we are currently updating this section.
	www.japan-101.com /food/dining_osechi.htm (164 words)

	Japanese New Year
		Various kinds of special dishes are served during shogatsu.
		They include osechi ryori, otoso (sweetened rice wine) and ozoni (a soup with mochi).
		There are also a few games traditionally played on New Year, however, their popularity has decreased in recent times.
	www.japan-guide.com /e/e2064.html (411 words)

	Happy New Year in Little Tokyo
		Special menus are featured in our restaurants throughout the New Year's Cerebration.
		They include our Special New Year's Eve Gourmet Dinner and Long Life Noodle Celebration, and our traditional Osechi Buffet served on the New Year's Day on our Garden Level.
		Includes Osechi Buffet and Valet Parking, Late Guest Room Check-out, Taxes and Gratuities.
	www.newotani.com /newyear.htm (302 words)

	Osechi on Flickr - Photo Sharing!
		mmmm, dogs were waiting to eat Osechi (special, traditional New Year's food served during the New Year period..)
		Move your mouse over the photo to see them.
		Their sizes were just fit in the size of Osechi.
	www.flickr.com /photos/77667545@N00/81378581 (167 words)

	kristen's japan: weblog
		The osechi foods in the jyubako are as beautiful as the boxes themselves and as steeped in tradition and symbolism as they are in sauces.
		Though the passage of osechi from royal banquet to home cooking is lost in the ages, it's possible that people began to offer some of these imperial treats to the toshigama, year-god, who is said to visit homes on the first day of the new year.
		Osechi is prepared ahead of time, and all the dishes will keep for several days.
	www.mediatinker.com /blog/osechi/osechi.html (1053 words)

	TheColumbiaRecord.com - Home (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Osechi Ryori is a collection of special foods the Japanese people eat at the beginning of the New Year.
		Generally, Osechi isn't found on the regular restaurant menus and is a specialty enjoyed at home.
		Osechi is also offered to guests who drop in bringing their best wishes for a prosperous New Year.
	www.thecolumbiarecord.com /default.asp?item=241318 (956 words)

	Tony Wu’s Underwater Photography Blog » Blog Archive » Osechi Ryouri
		First, the term “osechi” probably derives from the term osekku (お節句), which refers to the traditional practice of offering thanks to spirits/ gods for the harvest.
		Osechi ryouri is prepared in large quantities and served for the first three days of the new year.
		This is meant to give housewives a 3-day break at the beginning of the year from the daily chore of preparing meals.
	www.tonywublog.com /20070101/osechi-ryouri.html (430 words)

	osechi 2: pirikara-konnyaku, tataki gobo, and kobumaki (recipes) » plastique monkey
		most recipes for osechi ryori (traditional japanese new year’s dishes) make enough to feed a family of four for three days.
		even though i was just making osechi for two, it took a lot of prep work and cooking to make all the various small dishes.
		osechi is full of “dajare” (bad puns) and “oyaji-gyagu” (”old man gags”, corny jokes).
	www.plastiquemonkey.com /2007/02/01/osechi-2-pirikara-konnyaku-tataki-gobo-and-kobumaki-recipes (855 words)

	insite-column Toraya
		Two very important traditional foods are the historical "Hishi-hanabira", part of the "Osechi Ryori" of the Imperial Court, and the New Year wagashi "Hanabira Mochi".
		Made not only for the Imperial Court, it was also a part of the "Osechi Ryori" of shrines and court nobility from the Muromachi Period.
		In the Meiji period it was reborn as wagashi and made available to the general public for New Year celebrations, though the traditional form is still made today for the Imperial Court.
	insite-tokyo.com /back_issues/sweet_sensation/1999_1/index.html (386 words)

	Old Topics Yamatoku Vintage Kimono
		It is the origen of the "Osechi" At that time it is far from common people.
		The new year dishes to pray for a good harvest had chaned to sumptuous dishes with vegetables and fruit of the sea and mountain.Black bean called "Kuromame" and herring egg called "Kazunoko" have been added to the "Osechi" at that time.
		As just described, the traditon of "Osechi" was formed with mixtures of the tradition of nobles, Samurai, town people, and farmers.
	www.yamatoku.jp /classic/oldtopic.asp?no=55 (179 words)

	Eating Up the Troubles \| Education and Society \| Trends in Japan \| Web Japan
		Originally, the term osechi ryori referred to the meal served at sechie, banquets held by the imperial court during the Heian period (794-1185) to celebrate the transition from one season to the next.
		As one theory has it, the custom of preparing osechi ryori for New Year's began when these foods were offered to the toshigami (literally "year god"), the deity believed to pay an annual visit to people's homes on New Year's Day and bring blessings to each family, such as a good harvest.
		The most popular commercially prepared osechi ryori assortments retail for 30,000 to 40,000 yen (290 to 380 U.S. dollars at 105 yen to the dollar) and are designed for three people.
	web-jpn.org /trends00/honbun/tj000114.html (646 words)

	Eating Up the Troubles \| Education and Society \| Trends in Japan \| Web Japan
		Originally, the term osechi ryori referred to the meal served at sechie, banquets held by the imperial court during the Heian period (794-1185) to celebrate the transition from one season to the next.
		As one theory has it, the custom of preparing osechi ryori for New Year's began when these foods were offered to the toshigami (literally "year god"), the deity believed to pay an annual visit to people's homes on New Year's Day and bring blessings to each family, such as a good harvest.
		The most popular commercially prepared osechi ryori assortments retail for 30,000 to 40,000 yen (290 to 380 U.S. dollars at 105 yen to the dollar) and are designed for three people.
	web-japan.org /trends00/honbun/tj000114.html (646 words)

	Osechi
		Osechi is served to the guests on the first of January, the seventh of January, the third of March, the fifth of May, and the seventh of July.
		But, now, Osechi is served on New Year's Day.
		Tazukuri is the dried fish of the anshovies.
	eibun.mukogawa-u.ac.jp /eibun/sotsuron2002/ogino/html/osechi_e.HTM (190 words)

	Metropolis - Tokyo Food and Drink: Osechi Ryori
		Osechi ryori differs from household to household but in general it is associated with health, happiness, and a good harvest, and much of the food has special meanings.
		For example, tai (sea bream) is associated with medetai, meaning joyous or auspicious; konbu (kelp) is almost found in yorokobu, meaning to be glad or happy about; and kazunoko (prepared herring roe) is for the hope of having many children.
		Osechi cuisine is packed in three or four-tiered lacquer boxes called jubako.
	metropolis.co.jp /tokyofooddrinksarchive299/299/tokyofooddrinksinc.htm (424 words)

	KAISHOKU MICHIBA \| January
		Traditionally each family has its own recipes of cooking these dishes which are passed on from grandmothers to mothers to their daughters.
		Osechi, therefore has a lot of meanings than just being a Japanese festive cuisine.
		Osechi is usually served at room temperature so hot Ozoni (broth or soup with mochi) is also served during the meal.
	www.michiba.com /michiba/michiba.nsf/2004January_en (620 words)

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