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After the difficulties of 2020, which meant that the Bamboo Bathhouse had to close for a large part of the year due to the global pandemic of COVID 19, the…
Even with the Chinese New Year happening before Setsubun (the eve of spring and the new lunar year) in 2020, Kiku and Miko-chan enjoyed looking at the details of each…
let’s clean!
nakamura | customs, folklore, japan, national holiday, new year, seasons, small tales from the big city, winter | No CommentsEarlier in the year, Miko-chan had asked Mama Kōjin if the next community workshop could be one that looked at tips for cleaning, as she loved to help with the…
On the morning of 28th September, Kiku was intrigued by the title of the current five-day marker in the old seasonal almanac. He read it as ‘hibernating creatures close their…