Kwanzaa is a weeklong celebration honoring African-American culture. In this South American country, folks dress up a straw man to represent the old year, and family members make a will for the straw man that lists all of his “faults.” At midnight, they burn the straw man - in hopes that their own faults disappear too. See you in 2019! … #wazashop #waza #japanshop #japanesegoods #japanesefood #japanesefoods #capetown #capetownsouthafrica #southafrica #japan #japaninafrica #jpnconceptstore #wazajapanesegoods #osouji #omisoka #osechiryori #teishoku #setto #engi #newyearseve #newyear #vredehoek #besafepeople #tatami #soba #toshikoshisoba #2018 #okbyeĪ post shared by WAZA Japan Labo on at 11:51am PST Here's to all our suppliers and partners and customers and new friends! We wouldn't have made such a celebratory meal without you. So, the meal included some soba salad with rocket and roasted sesame, teriyaki salmon with garlic buchu, potato salad, homemade pickled ginger, organic Japanese white + purple rice with furikake, miso soup made with agodashi and roasted shiitake (with some SA white wine).
We added some soba in homage to Toshikoshi Soba (New Year’s Eve Noodles), eaten at midnight in Japan to give good luck (engi – 縁起).
Instead of making Osechi Ryori (御節料理) – traditional Japanese New Year's foods – we made a dinner feast for two that reminds us of setto (teishoku) meals we enjoy so much when in Japan. Today, we decided to do a ZA interpretation of Ōmisoka – New Year's Eve festivities. This week we've been practicing the Japanese end-of-year tradition of Ōsouji (大掃除), when you clean everything in your home and work space in preparation for the new year. In many homes, there is a cast-iron bell that gets struck 108 times. Japanese families gather for a late dinner around 11 p.m., and at midnight, many make visits to a shrine or temple. In Japan, Omisoka, or New Year’s Eve, is the second most important holiday of the year, following New Year’s Day, the start of a new beginning. It is called “didukh,” which translates to “grandfather spirit.” In homes within the city, a few stalks of wheat may be used to decorate the table. In farming communities, the household head brings in a sheaf of wheat which symbolizes the wheat crops of Ukraine. The Christmas Eve festivities in the Ukraine are known as Sviata Vechera, which means “Holy Supper.” The celebration begins when the first evening star is sighted in the night sky. Link in bio ☝️ #birds #folksong #music #coventrycarol #christmas #wren #wrenboys #small #smallworks #Bristol #colour #smallisbeautiful #seasonsround #playlist #spotifyĪ post shared by David Abbott on at 12:40pm PST All this is to announce a Christmas playlist I’ve put together of olden-time songs and carols to celebrate this ancient and mystical time when the earth takes its shortest breaths of the year and winds up for another. Fittingly, our Wren sings the Coventry Carol which depicts a mother from the town of Bethlehem singing her child to sleep one last time before he is handed over to Herod’s men to be slaughtered. Mostly it would be dead by the time the wren boys went a-knockin’ but sometimes a kindly donation could keep it alive. Stephen’s day (boxing day) saw gangs of “wren boys” hunt the little bird and take its corpse door-to-door asking for donations. Christmas was not traditionally a good time for the tiny wren.
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