2020.1.6

It was fine. 

Today is shokan (小寒), one of nijushisekki (二十四節気), 24 solar terms. The last one was toji ()冬至 on Dec.22 and the next one is daikan (大寒) on January 20.

Shokan literally means small cold. It is also said kan no iri (寒の入り), which means entering coldness. It is the start of coldness.

It will be cold tomorrow.

2018.1.5

Today is shokan(小寒), one of nijyushisekki(二十四節気), the 24 solar terms.  It is literally small cold. Actually it was cloudy and very cold, slightly rained too.

I went to the Toyopet, car dealer. At the new year they always offer special sponge cake and fortune drawing presents for the customers. Every year they prepare the hand towel with the design of animal of the year. This is the year of dog. It is not the best prize, but I'd rather get them to sweets because we can buy sweets at the department store, but this hand towel is not sold aywhere.
This year I got the clay bell of dog too.
After that I went grocery shopping.