Japanese Custom

Otoshidama On New Year's Day, Japanese people have a custom of giving pocket money to children. This is known as otoshidama, which is a custom from China. It is handed out in small decorated envelopes called 'pochibukuro', descendants of the Chinese red packet. In the Edo period, large stores and wealthy families gave out a small bag of mochi and a Mandarin orange to spread happiness all around. The amount of money given depends on the age of the child but is usually the same if there is more than one child so that no one feels slighted.
Mochi Another custom of the Japanese is creating rice cakes. Boiled mochigome (sticky rice) is put in to a wooden shallow bucket-like container and patted with water by one person while another person hits it with a large wooden hammer. By mashing the rice, it gets sticky and forms a sticky white dumpling. This is made before New Year's Day and eaten during the beginning of January. Mochi is also made into a New Year's decoration called kagami mochi, formed from two round cakes of mochi with a daidai (bitter orange) placed on top. The name of the daidai is supposed to be auspicious since it means "several generations". Since its New Year were having a great big sale on best used cars Try to look to the car offer today http://www.prosperjp.com/stock/TOYOTA/COROLLA%20SEDAN/030695/ FOB $4,869 CAR ID 030695

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