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Get ready for the New Year with this special decoration at a temple gate.
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Gates not meant for me,
As I enter, I change.
Which spirit am I? -
🍊🎍DECORATING THE NEW YEAR🎍🎀
As soon as Christmas is over in Japan, and sometimes on Christmas day itself (depending on whether you celebrate on the 24th or 25th), the Christmas decorations are taken down and replaced with more traditional fare in preparation for the New Year.
There are 2 main types of New Year decorations: standing 'kadomatsu' (門松 lit. 'pine gates') and hanging 'shimekazari' (注連飾り).
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#TodayILearned indirectly through #MarioKartTour:
«A #kadomatsu (門松, "gate pine") is a traditional #Japanese #decoration as #yorishiro (an object capable of attracting #spirits called #kami, thus giving them a physical space to occupy during religious ceremonies)¹ of the #NewYear placed in pairs in front of homes to welcome ancestral spirits of the #harvest»²sources:
¹ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yorishiro
² https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kadomatsu