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Rice cake is paste of a certain kind of rice which is a little different from the kind of rice Japanese people usually have. It is more stickier. The adults gather the children to the event of making rice cake and show the old way of it. That is to beat rice again and again in a millstone with a mallet, just like the way the hare is doing. The Japanese in the past thought with looking at the pattern of the moon, “a hare is making rice cake at the moon”.
But nowadays rice cake also is almost made with the machines. What has become of the hare?
Lost his job?

A tangerine is put on the rice cake. It is an ornament. Other ornaments are sometimes set, too.
This custom has been still going on commonly.

Now, this is established at the mansion where there is a gate or at the company is. At the general house, it isn’t too much established.

Usually, the three bamboos are used for the center of the New Year’s decoration pines.
The circumference of the bamboo is filled with the leaf of the pine.
The picture on the left is doing the ornament with true red growing plant in the winter which is called “NANTEN”.

It sets up the sacred straw rope as the holy place and the mark to greet the god and that the affliction and the bogy were made not to be able to enter begins.
The staple food of the Japanese is the rice. The sacred straw rope is made with the stem of the rice. The people prayed to the god for a lot of rice to be able to be harvested.
Now, it is used as the ornament.
The picture on the left makes the part of the rope circular. It is decorating the rope with the red and white paper, the orange, the lobster, the leaf and so on.
It is placed on the gate at the house and so on at present.

The lion dance was adopted from China as the religious entertainment to calm down by suppressing the evil spirit and to make of the enemy be awed.

The green part is made of the cloth, and the person goes in and dances.
The mouth of the lion can open mainly, the adults put the head of the child in the mouth of the lion and sometimes astonish.
At present, “the lion dance” became not able to be too much seen.

In the summer in Japan, it is extremely sultry.
The people see the firework which is launched on the river and forget the sultry.
In Japanese, the firework is called “HABA-BI”. “HANA” is the flower and “BI” is the fire.
Recently, the launch of the firework is automated with the computer. Often, the thousands of fireworks can be continuously launched for the 3 hours of pm9:00 from pm6:00.
The young women put on the clothing which is called “YUKATA” and supervise the feelings in the past. They have the fan which is called “UCHIWA”(The round fan) at the hand.

Because the firework uses the gunpowder, the firework factory is in the place which left the place where the people live in.

When seeing the firework nearby, the neck is tired because it is the form to look up at.

The moon in September is the most beautiful in the year. I think of air’s being clear probably.
The full moon in September is called “CHUUSYUU NO MEI-GETU”. “CHUUSYUU” is the middle in the autumn. “MEI” is the wonderful thing. “GETU” is the moon.
The people spend the quiet time while they hear the bleat of the insect in the autumn.

It is the dumpling to sacrifice to the god in the moon.
In Japanese, the dumpling is called “DANGO”.
It is the one which was boiled by making the dogtooth violet starch which was dissolved with the water the circular form. It isn’t good even if it lives on being just as it is. The children put and eat the sugar.

In the autumn, the tops of the Japanese pampas grass grows up. The Japanese pampas grass is called “SUSUKI”.
The Japanese pampas grass is the thin plant and it shakes when it blows. The wind becomes cool and the Japanese pampas grass suits to enjoy the silence in the autumn.

The people scatter the soybean while they cry for “ONI WA SOTO, HUKU WA UTI” the day of the eve of the beginning of spring.
“ONI” is the bogle and “SOTO” is the outside.
“HUKU” is to be happy and “UTI” is the inside.
The meaning is “the bogle come out outside ! letting the happiness in the house !”.
“Because the season changes rapidly, let’s be careful of the body”.
It uses the soybean for the bean. The soybean is the bean which is good for the body which has a lot of nutrition.

This custom has been still going on commonly.