3月 03 2018
It’s “Girl’s Day”
Yes, I said it right, Girl’s day.
And No its not like the days we say when you and your girl friends hang out together.
I am talking about “Hinamatsuri”. In Japan there is a special day to celebrate for girls and they call it “Hinamatsuri” or Doll’s day. It is celebrated each year on March 3. Since it is the day today, our sharehouse will be gathering tonight to make a Chirashi-sushi cake (Chirashi-sushi literally means scattered sushi). I am excited since it is my first time to celebrate Hinamatsuri in Japan. Well obviously they don’t have this kind of event outside Japan.
I was talking to my Japanese friends today and asked what they usually do for this occasion. This festival is when people pray for the happiness and healthy grow of girls especially in a family with young daughters. It depends on region of how they celebrate it though. I heard in this area, people eat “Hishi Mochi” (diamond-shaped mochi). But in general, they eat colorful rice crackers, “Hina-arare” and display their beautiful collection of Japanese dolls at home until March 4. By the way, they don’t display those dolls past March 4 because leaving it out pass that day may delay the girl’s chance of marriage.
In the country where I lived before, we don’t really have this kind of special occasion for young adults. As far as I know, in family, we only celebrate mother’s and father’s day. I think this event is really interesting because we don’t have this kind of culture where we give time to celebrate for kids or young adults (as I prefer to call). Although, I’ve lived in Japan for quite a long time, I can’t wait to celebrate this with my friends in share house tonight 🙂
Oh! we are also planning to make “Karaage” which is one of my favorite Japanese food. Karaage is deep dried chicken in small pieces. Mmmmmh, Just thinking about cooking makes me hungry! One thing I love about Ueda Share house is, we have free seasoning in our kitchen. Yes, that includes cooking oil, sugar, salt, pepper, mirin, sesame oil, soy sauce and even sake (rice wine)!! It just makes cooking so easy and fun!
We are probably going to grocery store soon <3
Thanks for reading and have a great day!!
XO,
M.
