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30 Jun

Summer clean up, eat Minazuki

June 30, 2015 Juju Kurihara Culture, Foods, Vocabulary Tags: japan, Japanese custom, Japanese superstitious, Japanese tradition, Kyoto custom 0 Comments

Today the 30th of June, people in Kyoto eat Minazuki to purify the bad luck from the last 6 months. Why they eat it and how it started?

16 May

Why Japanese say Itadakimasu together before they eat?

May 16, 2015 Juju Kurihara Culture, Lifestyle, Vocabulary Tags: itadakimasu, japan, Japanese custom, Japanese eating habit, vocabulary 12 Comments

One of the things that confuse me outside of Japan is when people start to eat. Each one starts when they get the plate while Japanese people wait for everyone to get the plate and start together with “Itadakimasu”.

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