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Ōmisoka (大晦日) or ōtsugomori (大晦) is a Japanese traditional celebration on the last day of the year. Traditionally, it was held on the final day of the 12th lunar month. With Japan's switch to using the Gregorian calendar at the beginning of the Meiji era, it is now used on New Year's Eve to celebrate the new year.
' midnight bell ' is a Japanese Buddhist event held annually on New Year's Eve. The bell, or bonshō, is struck at midnight of December 31, as a part of the Ōmisoka celebrations. Most temples ring the bell 108 times. It is celebrated mainly in Japan, but also in South Korea and at Japanese Buddhist temples around the world.
The event was part of the Tenka Sanbun no Kei series of shows co-produced by BJW, DDT and K-Dojo from 2007 to 2015, and the first in the New Year's Eve Pro-Wrestling brand of events. The event was headlined by a Rumble match featuring 108 participants, the largest known to date. [ 2 ]
This year, Lunar New Year falls on Saturday, Feb. 10. Lunar New Year's date changes every year since it follows a lunar calendar, according to Gang Liu , a professor of Chinese studies at Carnegie ...
Lunar New Year — which includes Chinese New Year, Seollal in Korea, Tet in Vietnam and more — will begin Feb. 10, kicking off more than two weeks of festivities, customs and plenty of feasts.
The Japanese New Year (正月, Shōgatsu) is an annual festival that takes place in Japan.Since 1873, the official Japanese New Year has been celebrated according to the Gregorian calendar, on January 1 of each year, New Year's Day (元日, Ganjitsu).
Chinatown Dragon T-Shirt. Joanne Kwong suggests celebrating the Year of the Dragon with this cool T-shirt. It features a logo designed by 4 Good Measure, an independent, Asian American-owned ...
Chinese dragon mythology is the source of Japanese dragon mythology. Japanese words for "dragon" are written with kanji ("Chinese characters"), either simplified shinjitai 竜 or traditional kyūjitai 龍 from Chinese long 龍. These kanji can be read tatsu in native Japanese kun'yomi, [b] and ryū or ryō in Sino-Japanese on'yomi. [c]