2009年1月15日木曜日

Dondoyaki(burning of New Year decorations)

This is a shrine in my town. The person is tossing some money into an offertory called Saisen-bako, and will pray.

Every January we take New year's decorations to burn at a shrine in my town. It is called Dondoyaki. The people were preparing for bone fire to burn them. It's a fire festival to ward off evil at the beginning of the year. Warming ourself at the fire is said to bring good health. If we go there around 11 am., we can eat grilled mochi .




Some staff have to check up nonburnable things and burnable ones in order not to emit?(create?) dioxin. So , my mother and I had already took out nyron stuff from the New Year decorations at home.


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