It is fine this morning. The wind does not blow. It is relatively cold morning.
Yesterday was the last business day of the year in Japan.
We clean the office from morning and take out garbage.
We get words and a present of the appreciation from a manager afterwards.
And sake and a dried cuttlefish said to be lucky from old days are served.
And it is Party closing with a single clap.
It is Simplified manner of the original 3 sets of 3-3-7 claps.
Most government offices & big companies enter for New Year holidays.
It is year-end general cleaning today in most families from morning.
And we go to the market for preparations for New Year holidays from the afternoon.
Kadomatsu:
Decorative pine branche.
Simenawa:
sacred Shinto rope with festoons.
Kagamimochi:
round mochi cakes
Meat. Fish. Crabs. Boiled beans. Rice cakes. A salted salmon. Dried fish. It is also soba for the seeing the old year out. etc ...
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There were war at home and abroad in Japan from old days, but the custom of the nation is inherited ceaselessly.
It is a routine with happiness.
What kind of routines does world everybody have?
