Japantastic!!!

Hello, everyone!! Today, i'll tell you about AMIDAKUJI . Have ever heard it? AMIDAKUJI is one of Japanese lottery, which was born in Muromachi periodo(1338-1573). We can use AMIDAKUJI to choose one person/place/thing from some alternatives. ◼︎◼︎◼︎◼︎◼︎◼︎◼︎◼︎◼︎◼︎◼︎◼︎◼︎◼︎◼︎◼︎◼︎◼︎◼︎◼︎ How to do the AMIDAKUJI?? ◼︎◼︎◼︎◼︎◼︎◼︎◼︎◼︎◼︎◼︎◼︎◼︎◼︎◼︎◼︎◼︎◼︎◼︎◼︎◼︎ For example, if we have to choose one person from six people, 1, Write 6 vertical lines(number of people) on a paper. 2, Write some horizontal lines at ramdom to make a bridge, and it will be just like a ladder. 3, Hide the bridges by the other paper or hand without a moment's delay. 4, Write some prizes or duties on the bottom of the line. 5, Write everyone's name on the top of the lines. (i wrote people's name whom i'm following on my twitter :P hehe) 6, Then, Remove the paper or hand on it to reveal. From the top of the line you assigned, Follow your line to the bottom. in this case, Todd was chosen!! By the way, We can ...

Hello, everyone!!! i'll tell you 'bout ‘‘SETSUBUN’’ culture today. ◼︎◼︎◼︎◼︎◼︎◼︎◼︎◼︎◼︎◼︎◼︎◼︎◼︎◼︎◼︎◼︎◼︎◼︎◼︎◼︎ What's SETSUBUN??? ◼︎◼︎◼︎◼︎◼︎◼︎◼︎◼︎◼︎◼︎◼︎◼︎◼︎◼︎◼︎◼︎◼︎◼︎◼︎◼︎ SETSUBUN is a name of a day, which is once a year. The day means division of seasons. The kanji for SETSU means SEASONS, and the kanji for BUN means DIVISION. It is said that SETSUBUN was the end of spring, summer, autumn, winter in the old    lunar calender, but today, it means only the end of winter after Edo period. It will be the 2nd or 3rd or 4th of February. ◼︎◼︎◼︎◼︎◼︎◼︎◼︎◼︎◼︎◼︎◼︎◼︎◼︎◼︎◼︎◼︎◼︎◼︎◼︎◼︎ What will Japanese people do on the day?? ◼︎◼︎◼︎◼︎◼︎◼︎◼︎◼︎◼︎◼︎◼︎◼︎◼︎◼︎◼︎◼︎◼︎◼︎◼︎◼︎ On the day, Japanese people do ‘‘ MAME-MAKI ’’. MAME is beans, and MAKI means scatter. So, we throw roasted soy beans outside and inside our house as saying ‘‘ ONI WA SOTO, FUKU WA UCHI!!! ’’ It means like ‘‘ Devils out, Fortunes in!!! ’’. After throwing, w...