January « 2011 « Click-a-Japan

Chigirie

“Chigiri” is the Japanese word that means “to tear” , ”tear finely piece by piece” , while “E” pronounced “eh” is the word for picture or art work.

Thus a painting may also be referred to as an “E”.

Chigirie is the Japanese art of making pictures – out of Japanese paper known as Washi.

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Seijin no Hi

After the New Year celebration, the second Japanese Holiday for the year, is the Seijin no Hi which literally means ” Coming of Age Day”.

This is falls on the second Monday of January. This is a national holiday.

The celebrants are those who have turned 20 years old – this is the day when [...]