SETSUBUN Let's have an experience to look at Japanese folklore !

SETSUBUN　

Japan is generally famous for that annual climatic  season

is divided into four. Looking into one year thoroughly,

it can has been divided into 24 climatic sections.

This is so called what "nijyu-shi sekki",

which Japanese people have long felt familiar with.

" Nijyu-shi " means here the number of 24 in Japanese language.

February 3 is the final day of winter season

by following the rules of " nijyu-shi sekki " .

Japanese people have long believed that days around the final section

and the new coming section are unstable in climate,

and that they easily get ill around these days.

They have long thought that they should have thrown away

such as illness and unstable climate by praying to God or

performing something ritual. Then on February 3,

people habitually throw beans from windows or doors at house

toward outside of house,

shouting " Get out of here , Devil ! Come'on , Good fortune ! "

At Saijyoji-temple located in suburbs of the city of Minamiashigara,

on February 3 ,

there is annually going to have a deal of " Bean- Scattering ceremony "

We recommend you to have an experience to look at the traditional ceremony

at the old and traditional Buddhism temple ,

if you are interested in Japanese folklore.