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Year of the Tiger – a year of Growth and Beginning Posted by eriko1 on Jan 22, 2022
Belated happy new year! This is a year of the Tiger. Tiger in Japanese is written as 虎（tora）but for Zodiac, it is written as 寅. I have learned that there are many versions of animal zodiacs (十二支 Junishi) in the world with some differences in animals. We adopted (導入する dounyusuru) Zodiac from China. But there…
New Year’s Cards (年賀状） Posted by eriko1 on Jan 5, 2021
明けましておめでとうございます。（A happy new year. Akemashite omedetogozaimasu) Let us start the 2021 blog with the Japanese declining tradition (伝統 dento)- New Year’s Cards called 年賀状(nengajo). It is a postcard with New Year’s greetings. You can purchase 年賀状 from your post office with a lottery number printed on them. In the New Year, numbers are drawn on…