This is Japanese Traditional Customs ( Furoshiki )
The New Year, which is the new year, is a time when you feel refreshed every year.
New Year's is an important event for Japanese people, such as setting up a kadomatsu, decorating Kagami mochi, eating Osechi dishes and Ozoni,
to welcome the old god.
About Kagami Mochi,
Sticky-Rice Cakes called Mochi are made of glutinous rice pounded into paste and molded into shape.
As you see in this picture below, two -round piled-up rice cakes.
It's a Japanese tradition to decorate Kagami-mochi on the Shinto altar and Buddhist altar in our house in the new year.
And you can see the Kagami-mochi is tied by a ribbon.
The ribbon is made from Mizuhiki.
About Mizuhiki.The tradition is said to have originated in the early 7th century when Ono no Imoko, who was an official envoy to China, returned from a mission getting gifts wrapped with hemp strings dyed red and white.
Thereafter, tying gifts with red and white cord became a fad, spreading mostly among court nobles.
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