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TsukuBlog A Local Perspective on Life in Tsukuba, Ibaraki, Japan. Genitalia-Shaped Rice-Cakes at the Takasai Jinja Shrine`s (高道祖神社) SAYARIBO Festival (塞り棒祭）on March 7, 2021 – NOT TOMORROW (Feb. 25th) 24 February, 2021 Sticky rice cakes in the shape of male and female genitalia (called SAYARIBO) are made by local parishioners and sold (to be eaten) as good luck charms on the day of the day before Little New Year’s (KOSHOGATSU) at the Takasai Jinja Shrine in Shimotsuma. They are now believed to be good for marital harmony, conceiving a child, easy delivery, sexual health- and fertility in general! Before the Meiji Restoration of 1868, though, and these MALE and FEMALE symbols were connected to Mikkyo (Esoteric Buddhism) which stressed the importance of balance between the male and female forces. Though the Koshogatsu festival has long been held according to the lunar calendar (which is tomorrow Feb. 25th) it has been permanently changed to t ....
TsukuBlog Around Mitsukaido Station, Its Not Arigato- Its OBRIGADO ! 16 June, 2014 Takara`s Brazilian Mall is located just next to Mitsukuaido Station (on the Joso Line- if using TX, change in Moriya)
The Japanese word ARIGATO and the Portuguese word OBRIGADO, which both mean THANK YOU in their respective languages, can often sound uncannily alike. And since Portugal WAS the first European country to have made contact with Japan ( in 1543), and DID in fact leave several linguistic traces of its presence (not to mention the introduction of Christianity and firearms, among other things!) which continue to live on in Modern Japanese, including the words for bread- PAN, button- BOTAN, cape- KAPPA, alcohol- ARUKORU and even the word TEMPURA, it is not surprising that there are MANY who assume that ARIGATO is also a word of Portuguese origin. ....