New Year Wreath

New Year Wreath
2006.01.02 5:56

This is literally 'Rope For Killing Animals'. In Japanese it's - See this article.
We had been decorating with this 'rope for killing animals' in front of the door of our house from the first to fifteenth of January every year traditionally. This is similar to Christmas wreath in shape. We used to decorate it in front of every car, now it disappeared completely. I noticed this year about a half households already ceased to do it in their house this season of the year. Amazing. I hope this society is not only changing its shape superficially but substansially. This is a good example how our society is changing.
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i find it ironic...(Score:2)
by kesuki (321456) on 2006.01.02 7:43 (#14375921) (http://kesuki.deviantart.com/ Last Journal: 2006.01.07 15:02)
that you want to hold onto such a tradition but would rather be speaking english ;)but yes japan has been changing a lot, it's due largely to western influence... cultural exchange leads to movements for people to change to do what they feel is most acceptable for them...can you imagine children and women taking up knives to fight invading soldiers in modern day japan? it was not long ago that that type of self sacrafice and pride in your nationality existed... change is happening faster and faster... and frankly it's not jsut the japanese culture that is changing either, american culture is shifting, european culture is changing, even the chinese culture with over 5,000 years of history is changing rapidly.where it will all lead is of course up to people to decide, and right now the most popular thing is to just let everyone create their own values and thoughts and beliefs... everyone 'says' that is good, and if people can 'choose' they can still 'choose' some prepackaged belief structure from someone... but i wonder if maybe some people aren't spending too much productive time considering their own beleif structure because of the 'vaccume' of 'make your own decisions' line of thought...
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Re:i find it ironic...(Score:1)
by mercedo (822671) * on 2006.01.04 2:33 (#14385296) (http://mercedo-the-eve.blogspot.com/ Last Journal: 2006.01.09 14:35)
More than 2000 years ago, we didn't have characters to literate our national language, and later when Chinese characters were introduced people started adopting them to transliterate our language. The atttempt never succeeded, and later it was succeeded partialy when we invented two phonetic characters.
Roman alphabet was introduced 16 century. I must say still it is very difficult to transliterate our language all in Roman alphabet, but definitely a lot of adaptations of phonetic words from English has been in progress.
I must say it will take another 30 years to replace majority of vocaburary in our language into English words, and by then public language in Japan is likely to be English.
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