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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).
Example components for a fukuwarai game: a blank face and a set of facial features Fukuwarai ( 福笑い ) is a Japanese children's game popular during New Year's celebrations . Players are led to a table which has a paper drawing of a human face with no features depicted, and cutouts of several facial features (such as the eyes , eyebrows ...
List of Japanese games may refer to: List of traditional Japanese games; List of Japanese board games; See also. Category:Video games developed in Japan
In Japanese culture, a hatsuyume (Japanese: 初夢) is the first dream one has in the new year. Traditionally, the contents of such a dream would foretell the luck of the dreamer in the ensuing year. Traditionally, the contents of such a dream would foretell the luck of the dreamer in the ensuing year.
Hanetsuki Hanetsuki paddles (left) and shuttlecocks (right) being sold at a shop in a train station.. Hanetsuki (Japanese: 羽根突き or 羽子突き) is a Japanese traditional game, similar to racket games like badminton but without a net, played with a rectangular wooden paddle called a hagoita and a brightly coloured shuttlecock, called a hane. [1]
This annual Shinto ritual, in its 62nd year this time, was held under cloudy skies with temperature nearing 35.6˚ F, which organizers said was one of the coldest day in the past decades.
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.