Shinno Primary School, Tokoyo, Japan explains our country's special holidays and festivals to our friends below:
Here is a Festival related to the natural light STAR! Tanabata or Star Festival on July 7
(Aug 7 at some part of Japan)
Christmas lights are very beautiful now in the shopping mall.
Here are two more Light Festivals in Japan.
In Japan New Year Cards are deliverd in the morning of the New Year's Day!
Hello Friends.
For the O-SHOUGATSU or New Year's Day you will get Special Kit of Japanese New Year's Day!
1) We Japanese Students are now making some Traditional Toys for the New Year Season for you.
2) We are looking for some photos, catalogs, advertising flyers, samples....anything you can see our special foods or real Japanese way of New Year!!
We will send these stuff by air as soon as possible. I hope you will enjoy Japanese way of O-SHOU-GATSU.
We are working very hard to finish Hand made toys now. You will have some HANE-TUKI SETs, Tops and SUGOROKU.
We also find something very new to you!! Please look at these sites:
http://www.shizuoka.ntt.co.jp/wnn-c/takara/takaraE9803/omake4.htm ....sugoroku.
http://jin.jcic.or.jp/kidsweb/calendar/december/hagoita.html
We know Greentown students will be back to school on the OSHOGATSU time. We are sure our presents will be there and hope you will enjoy with them. We think we are going to send them next week. We have no idea of the schedule in India. We think they wil be in your hands someday of just around the Christmas.
We had a happy Oshogastu (New Year's day).
Miyuki's Report.
You can see traditional way of New year's day in Japan.
Sige and Yurato's Report.
You can see their New Year's Day in picture diary.
Map of the Shrine on the New Year's Day.
by Chisato
Spring has come! Our calender says so. Actually February is the coldest month in Japan but some plants are telling us the comming season.
Setsubun is not a national holiday so we enjoy together in school. See this report by Takuya, Revin, Naoki and Miyuki
More information about Setsubun is here:
http://www.japan-guide.com/e/e2285.html
http://www.isei.or.jp/image_map/winter/Setsubun.html
I hope you will like this Funny events!
Credits
Photos:Mr. Kawakami (Japan)
Drawings & Content:
(Heading Picture by Madoka, Miku, Suzu, Risa, Misuzu;)
Computer Club of Shinno; Miyuki; Sige and Yurato; Riku; Chisato;
Setsubun Report by: Takuya, Revin, Naoki and Miyuki(Japan)
HTML: Mrs. Knox (USA) Mr. Kawakami (Japan)