Monday, April 16, 2018

2018.4.16

It was fine.

It is the new moon, shingetsu (新月), today. Do you have any rituals on the new moon and the full moon, mangetsu (満月)?
They say it is a good time to make wishes of what you want to increase on the day of the new moon and of what you want to decrease on the day of the full moon.
I have started writing the 10 wishes on the notebook since last year. Every time I check the wishes of last month if they were granted or not before writing the new ones.
Some were granted and others are not yet.
What kind of wishes do you have?
Whatever wishes you have, I think to write them down is a very good exercise to concentrate on your dreams.

After work I went to see friends in Shinagawa and ate the cake set.

Then I went to Yokohama to learn about Arimatsu shibori (有松絞り) tie-dyeing. It has about 400 years history.  They have some patterns. Each pattern has a special meaning of inviting fortunes. For example, kanokoshibori (鹿の子絞) is to drive away bad luck therefore at the shichigosan(七五三) celebration and Coming-of-age celebration we use the one with kanokoshibori.
One more thing, all tie-dyeing kimono is the formal wear of the Imperial family.

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