This is Japanese Traditional Customs ( Furoshiki ) | Japanese gift – A gift from Japan

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.

Mizuhiki is made from long thin strips of washi paper tightly twisted into thin “koyori” strings.

 

 

About Ozoni,

Mochi is eaten to celebrate good health and long life.

We eat Mochi in an Ozoni soup celebrating Japanese New Year.

There are vegetables and mushrooms and so on all you want and Mochi in the Ozoni soup

 

Then,

 One of such brilliant New Year’s customs is the “New Year’s greetings”, where people who are indebted to us are asked to say hello to the New Year. 

Unlike year-end gifts, at the beginning of the year, you bring a souvenir (New Year’s greetings) that is called Onenga

and go directly to the other party’s house to greet you.

About Furoshiki,

Furoshiki is a traditional Japanese square cloth, for wrapping items, such as gifts and presents, or transporting them. It’s also usable as it is, as the tablecloth, sofa decoration, etc., or can be folded and tied to create fashionable eco-bags. Versatile, convenient, and reusable, this Japanese ancient tradition perfectly matches nowadays needs for a more ecologic and waste-free way of creating bags and wrappings.
In this video, you will find simple instructions on how to tie a Furoshiki to create a bag or a wine bottle case.

We warp Onenga by Furoshiki and bring it.

As Onenga, we buy a Japanese sweet.

 

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Furoshiki is a traditional Japanese square cloth, for wrapping items, such as gifts and presents, or transporting them. It’s also usable as it is, as tablecloth, sofa decoration etc., or can be folded and tied to create fashionable eco-bags. Versatile, convenient and reusable, this Japanese ancient tradition perfectly matches nowadays needs for a more ecologic and waste-free way of creating bags and wrappings.
In this video, you will find simple instructions on how to tie a Furoshiki to create a bag or a wine bottle case.

Furoshiki pattern  : 14-052101

Furoshiki size 108 cm × 108 cm 

Cotton 100%   Made in Japan

This can be washed in the washing machine.

This texture is similar to a cotton T-shirt.

Furoshiki pattern : 14-052110

Furoshiki size 108 cm × 108 cm

Cotton 100%    Made in Japan

This can be washed in the washing machine.

This texture is similar to a cotton T-shirt.

Furoshiki pattern : 31-053052

Furoshiki size :118 cm × 118 cm

Cotton 100%   Made in Japan

This can be washed in the washing machine.

This texture is similar to a cotton T-shirt.

Furoshiki pattern : 27-020082

Furoshiki size : 118 cm × 118 cm

Cotton 100%  Made in Japan

This can be washed in the washing machine.

This texture is similar to a cotton T-shirt.

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