Today is Setsubun. Sestubun is a specil event to celebrate the change of seasons. This means a special dinner and a visit by an evil spirit (Mami's dad,Yoshi, dressed up to frighten Yurina) who we had to scare away by throwing soy beans at him and hitting him with swords made out of rolled up newspaper!! I kid you not!!We have a big, friendly Santa Claus and they have guys dressed up to scare the crap out of kids at kindergartens!! It was quite funny watching kids balling on the TV news as they were chased by the evil spirit.
The special dinner was green tea noodles. It was very nice, you don't really taste green tea in them at all!!(“Thank God” says Rob.)Sometime in the next couple of weeks we are going to visit Nagasaki which is on the island of Kyushu. I was hoping they may have a museum or Peace Park like they do in Hiroshima but I have heard if they do it is very low key which is perhaps understandable. It is also has a very big ship industry in the port and an active volcano!! So there will be plenty to see.
Rob I believe that to get good luck for the next year you have to eat one bean for each year of your life, plus one extra bean, now that's a lot of beans. How did you manage?
ReplyDeleteJan, the bowl of beans had to pass by yoshi, yoko and Mami (who is nearly 30!) so by the time it got to me there weren't any beans left!!
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