On February 15, 2014, the 30th Shiozawa Seppu Matsuri was held in the Shiozawa area of Minami Uonuma city. I went to the festival twice, first around 2:00 p.m. and second around 8:00 p.m. I managed to get seven mochi at the mochi maki (rice cake scattering) event at 8:35 p.m.
2014年２月15日、南魚沼市の塩沢地域で、第30回しおざわ雪譜まつりが行われました。私は午後２時ごろと午後８時ごろの二回、そのお祭りに行きました。午後8:35に行われた餅まきでは、餅を７個取ることができました。
I don't know why, but I can't insert photos into my blog, so I uploaded some photos to my Flickr account.
なぜか分かりませんが、写真をブログに挿入できないので、Flickrアカウントに写真をアップしました。
Flickr photos
Interesting! I have heard of mame maki, but not mochi maki. What was the purpose of it?
ReplyDeleteTea Apprentice: While mame maki is limited to Setsubun (March 3 this year), mochi maki can be held on any auspicious occasions. My family held a mochi maki event when we had a house built in 2005, as I described here on eGullet:
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So much snow, the snow cave buddha looks amazing.
ReplyDeleteKiki: Buddha?? That is Suzuki Bokushi.
ReplyDeleteIn this snowy region of Niigata, we had had less snow than usual until last Saturday, when we had a major snowfall. We were not alone. As you may know, Tokyo had as much as 27 cm of snow as reported here:
http://www.reuters.com/article/2014/02/16/us-japan-snow-idUSBREA1F02J20140216
Kofu city, Yamanashi prefecture, was even worse. It had more than 1 meter of snow!
I did not know anything about Suzuki Bokushi. Now I found his book translated into german: german title "Leben unter dem Schnee - Living under the snow". Looked like a sitting Buddha to me (laugh).
ReplyDeleteYes this winter is kind of unusual, heavy floods and storms in England, Snow blizzards and heavy snow in the USA down to the Southern states and heavy snow in Japan but we are the lucky ones: During the middle of the winter (temperatures drop quite often under minus 10 degree Celsius) mild spring weather! I only had to shuffle snow twice during this winter.
I also thought it was a buddha (though a thin one!).
ReplyDeleteWe are also happy in Switzerland: this winter is particularly mild (especially compared to the previous one!).
Kiki and Sissi: That book of Suzuki Bokushi is now translated into English, German, and Chinese. The German version inspired a German director, who produced the movie Under Snow.
ReplyDeleteWe talked about this movie, don't you remember (laugh)?
http://hiro-shio.blogspot.jp/2011/10/unter-schneeunder-snow.html
Wow, your thread about house building was very interesting to read. Thank you!
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