Tuesday, August 4, 2009

はしの日(hashi no hi)

Aug. 4 is written as 8.4, and read as ha (8) shi (4). Therefore today is day of hashi. If we say just hashi, there are some homonyms, but we usually imagine three different words: one is chopsticks (箸), the other is bridge (橋), and another is edge (端).
Today is hashi no hi (箸の日), Day of Chopsticks and hashi no hi (橋の日), Day of Bridge.
Day of Chopsticks was established in 1975 by the disposable wooden chopsticks association to think of chopsticks such as reviewing the food life or how to hold chopsticks correctly. There is a special thanksgiving ceremony for chopsticks to offer 1 meter long chopsticks and to burn old chopsticks at the Hie jinja (日枝神社: Hie Shrine), Akasaka.
Day of Bridge was established in 1986. It is a day to thank the bridges which have close relationships with our lives and culture, and to review one's home town through the connection of bridges and rivers.

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