【Oshougatsu】Japanese New Year's GIF Summary
This GIF summary was produced for people of all over the world to be interested in New Year holidays in Japan. If the atmosphere of New Year holidays of traditional Japan comes, I am happy.
※このGIFまとめは、日本のお正月に興味を持つ全世界の人々の為に制作されました。伝統的な日本のお正月の雰囲気が伝われば幸いです。
【Oshougatsu】Watching at a new year sunrise
madyson2omnis
2015年の初日の出の様子のGIF画像
[元動画] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=--_p7uHCiKg
New age came. At first "A Happy New Year!!" ,we Japanese say it watching at the first sunrise of a new year.
【Oshougatsu】Praying at the Shinto shrine
vita@doloremque
OH!くんが投げたお賽銭が鳥に持って行かれるGIF画像
[元動画] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k7cpA4_63fo
When New Year holidays are over, at first I go to the Shinto shrine and do greetings of the New Year for God. And we sound a bell and throw 5 yen coin into an offertory box and give prayer to God.
【Oshougatsu】Pulling an Omikuji
TOMO0610
小学生の男の子がお正月におみくじを引いて笑顔になるGIF画像
[元動画] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yy7vk6TZKm4
In the Shinto shrine many people pull a sacred lot （Omikuji）and tells a fortune of one year. There is it from great good luck to bad luck, and new one year seems to be greeted for a happy feeling if it is great good luck.When we tie the paper of the sacred lot to the branch of the tree of Shinto shrine,your wish comes true・・・it's handed down.
【Oshougatsu】Baking the rice cake in the house
etha_et
焼いている餅がぷくっと膨らむGIF画像
[元動画] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rK1oDQgnxcg
The rice cake baked using a cooker and an iron net in the house is one of the pronouns of New Year holidays. A rice cake was the expensive food which was not readily available in old days too.
【Oshougatsu】Eating the New Year dishes(osethi) with a family
ceasar@sit
ゆゆ式でおせちを食べるGIF画像
The New Year dishes（osethi） made with grand ingredients are one of the luxury of New Year holidays. Japan had abundant food now, and the value of New Year dishes faded, but, in old Japan the civilians were very poor,so such cooking was very pleased.
【Oshougatsu】Doing the calligraphy practice（kakizome） at the beginning of the year
大勢の学生が広い日本武道館で書初めをするGIF画像
[元動画] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SqkWwY-ZMmY
Many students do the calligraphy practice（kakizome） at the beginning of the year at the Nihon Budoukan. We greet the New Year, and the calligraphy practice at the beginning of the year to write an aim of one year on the paper may be one of the traditional events peculiar to Japan.
【Oshougatsu】Playing ｆukuwarai
zack@aut
手作りの福笑いで遊ぶ子供のGIF画像
[元動画] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tFFV5k3CX8Y
A small child blindfolds and plays fukuwarai. This play only places the parts of the face to the face drawn on the paper, but it's funny so much as to be scattered.
【Oshougatsu】Making the rice cake outside
etha_et
臼に入った餅が杵でこねられるGIF画像
[元動画] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jx2uCv2RJK4
The meeting with the rice cake is held outdoors in various parts of Japan for New Year holidays. We knead the Nonglutinuous rice which was in the mortar and make a rice cake with water while strike with a mallet as hard as possible.
【Oshougatsu】Putting up a kite
dulce_et
大きく赤い蛸が空高く泳ぐGIF画像
[元動画] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kETNlUg5sJY
What's this?! But,you maybe know it.That's right, this is a Japanese kite like an octopus. In Japan likewise,many kites pull up in the sky for one week from New Year holidays.
【Oshougatsu】Turning koma
etha_et
グレーのシャツを着た人がコマに紐を巻きつけるGIF画像
[元動画] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O7gtKkHJCa0
Koma mawashi（The turning koma） is popular play in the Asian area, but may be the play that is unfamiliar to except the Asian area. it winds a string around a koma and throw it below and compete for length of the rotating time.
【Oshougatsu】Playing the battledore
etha_et
真剣な男女二人が羽子板で遊んでいるGIF画像
[元動画] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7GzPifMLMmY
This is the figure of the man and woman playing with the battledore. Smashing feather（Hanetsuki） is one of the play of the Japanese girl, but it becomes to play very hard and may come to do my best to beat a partner. The loser is scribbled on a face with a sumi by the winner.
【Oshougatsu】Purchasing lucky bag（fukubukuro） at new year's sale of many retailers
stefan@porro
沢山の情勢たちが争って買い求める福袋のGIF画像
[元動画] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nh3Stq1S74U
The retail companies carry out a New Year's sale at once from January 1 when new year began. Housewives and young women with opening rush to the sales floor and purchase an economical lucky bag .Needless to say,It is a sale product and is not free.
