11/01/2021 / Last updated : 11/01/2021 Sachiaki Takamiya Japanese culture

Oshiruko on the Day of Kagami Biraki

Kagami Biraki is an event of eating Kagami Mochi at the end of the New Year, and we usually do it on January 11th. Kagami Mochi is two-round piled up rice cakes, and we decorate them in our house during the new year holiday to welcome the god of new year.

10/01/2021 / Last updated : 10/01/2021 Sachiaki Takamiya Japanese culture

January 10th is a Day for Ebisu, a God of Business Prosperity

In Japan, especially in Western Japan, January 10th is a special day. It is a day for a god called Ebisu. It is a god of business prosperity.

09/01/2021 / Last updated : 09/01/2021 Sachiaki Takamiya ikigai diet

What If You Don’t Have Time to Plan Your Weekly or Monthly Menus?

What can you do if you don’t have time to plan your diet?

08/01/2021 / Last updated : 08/01/2021 Sachiaki Takamiya holistic life

How to Plan Your Ikigai Diet for 2021

Today, I will share with you how to plan for your health in 2021.

07/01/2021 / Last updated : 07/01/2021 Sachiaki Takamiya health trends

Fermented Brown Rice Nanakusagayu

Nanakusagayu is salt taste rice porridge made by what we call spring seven wild herbs. It is supposed to cleanse our stomach which has been filled with heavy meals during the new year’s holiday. If we have Nanakusagayu for breakfast on the 7th, we are said to have good health for the rest of the year.

06/01/2021 / Last updated : 06/01/2021 Sachiaki Takamiya spirituality

Relaxing is a Way to Go in the Age of Air

What did I do to welcome the new year instead of visiting a shrine?

05/01/2021 / Last updated : 05/01/2021 Sachiaki Takamiya Japanese culture

Hatsumode, the First Visit to a Shinto Shrine in the New Year

We did Hatsumode, visiting a shrine on the 4th this year.

04/01/2021 / Last updated : 04/01/2021 Sachiaki Takamiya Japanese culture

Joya no Kane, the New Year’s Eve Bell

In Japan, we have a tradition called Joya no Kane which means the New Year’s Eve Bell. The bells are rung 108 times at Buddhist temples throughout the country.