Monday, May 5, 2014

2014.5.5

There was a big earthquake this morning.

Today is a national holiday called "Kodomo no hi (こどもの日)," Children's Day.  The family with boys decorate "kabuto (兜)," helmet at home, and "koi nobori (鯉幟)," carp-shaped streamers outside.  We eat the sweets called "Kashiwa mochi (柏餅)," rice cake with sweet red bean paste wrapped with oak leaves.

Today is rikka (立夏), one of nijyushisekki (二十四節季), the 24 solar terms.  Last one was kokuu (穀雨) on April 20, and the next one will be shoman (小満) on May 21.  Rikka literally means stand summer, it is the first day of summer by the old calendar.

It was a cloudy and rainy day.
I went to beauty shop to have my hair cut and perm, and went shopping micro SD card, mobile battery, and protection seal for the new smart phone, and grocery shopping too.



 

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