Jan. 15 is known as ko shogatsu (小正月：small new year) compared to Jan. 1 as o shogatsu (大正月：big new year).
There was a custom to eat adzuki gayu (小豆粥：red bean rice porridge) in the morning.
There are events called sagicho (左義長) or donto yaki (どんと焼) at ko shogatsu. They are a kind of fire festivals that some people bring the new year decorations (See photo) and burn them. With the smoke the Year God that visited at the New Year will go back to heaven. The heat is used to warm rice cakes, potatoes, dumplings at the top of a pole. Eating them is believed to avoid sickness during the year.
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