Omisoka (New Year's Eve),Jyoya No Kane (New Year's Eve Bell)
In Japan, most biggest events in a year will be new Years Eve event. In Japan, school starts in April,ends in March but each year starts from Jan,end in December. In Japanese,last day of December aka New year's eve is called O Misoka. On Dec 31st (Omisoka/New year's eve),people enjoy special variety shows on TV. Especially the one that starts around from 6-7pm. Big music show called "kohaku uta gassen" starts,and many people will be glue to the show.
This show "Kohaku Uta Gassen" bring chosen singers from variety of music kinds:enka (kind of like country music in Japan),pop music,rock music, etc and it is very honorable thing to be on the show for artists. Usually, TV station announce who will be on the show as the date close to the show and newspaper print out who will be in there in what order and what song will be sang for each singer. Male singers are white colored team, female singers are red team. Then,I believe there were judge in the show and give points to each singer. Then, red team,white team both has leader and they do all the talk including introducing the singers that come on to the stage. During the show, usually we get to see Japanese dram performance or other performances and then back to singing competition again.
I love music. I played piano, won silver in piano contest when I was junior high school. I love singing too. When I was kid,I liked some dancing groups and some of them danced with roller skate and when I knew they will be on "Kohaku Uta Gassen", I was very excited. That show itself going on until midnight believe it or not. So,Omisoka or New year's eve was the only day I was allowed to be up that late.At about midnight,they announce which team won and the team leader gets trophy.
My family usually went to grandparents' house around new year's eve. And always,each Dec 31st (Omisoka), we had soba noodle late at night after early dinner. Many of the things Japanese do will be probably something to do with superstition,but we eat "Toshikoshi Soba" (Buckwheat noodle) on New year's eve wishing to live long via eating long thin noodle as well as health for coming new year.
Also, some people go out to shrine to ring the big bell. The bell ring at 12am Jan 1st 108 times. why 108 times? According to japaniroha website, people believed that by ringing the bell once,you get something that make you worry or something that makes you misled away from your body. This is to start new year with new spirit and very last ring of the bell:108th bell, will be rang after midnight has passed.
　Here,you can hear "Joya No Kane"(New year's eve bell) via video.
Bellow,you can watch video clip 1: Monks ring the huge bell on New year's eve, clip 2: people rings bell in turn. Some shrines,monks ring the bell,some shrines,people get in line and get to ring once and if you were within 108th people in line, you can get to ring the bell. I usually heard the bell on TV with my family,never been to shrine to ring but it will be interesting to do in the future.
Clip 1: Monk ringing bell on New year's Eve
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Clip 2: people ringing bell on New year's Eve
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If you had a chance to visit Japan around New year,it will be interesting for you to see this bell ringing event. It must be dynamic to see with your eyes.
This show "Kohaku Uta Gassen" bring chosen singers from variety of music kinds:enka (kind of like country music in Japan),pop music,rock music, etc and it is very honorable thing to be on the show for artists. Usually, TV station announce who will be on the show as the date close to the show and newspaper print out who will be in there in what order and what song will be sang for each singer. Male singers are white colored team, female singers are red team. Then,I believe there were judge in the show and give points to each singer. Then, red team,white team both has leader and they do all the talk including introducing the singers that come on to the stage. During the show, usually we get to see Japanese dram performance or other performances and then back to singing competition again.
I love music. I played piano, won silver in piano contest when I was junior high school. I love singing too. When I was kid,I liked some dancing groups and some of them danced with roller skate and when I knew they will be on "Kohaku Uta Gassen", I was very excited. That show itself going on until midnight believe it or not. So,Omisoka or New year's eve was the only day I was allowed to be up that late.At about midnight,they announce which team won and the team leader gets trophy.
My family usually went to grandparents' house around new year's eve. And always,each Dec 31st (Omisoka), we had soba noodle late at night after early dinner. Many of the things Japanese do will be probably something to do with superstition,but we eat "Toshikoshi Soba" (Buckwheat noodle) on New year's eve wishing to live long via eating long thin noodle as well as health for coming new year.
Also, some people go out to shrine to ring the big bell. The bell ring at 12am Jan 1st 108 times. why 108 times? According to japaniroha website, people believed that by ringing the bell once,you get something that make you worry or something that makes you misled away from your body. This is to start new year with new spirit and very last ring of the bell:108th bell, will be rang after midnight has passed.
　Here,you can hear "Joya No Kane"(New year's eve bell) via video.
Bellow,you can watch video clip 1: Monks ring the huge bell on New year's eve, clip 2: people rings bell in turn. Some shrines,monks ring the bell,some shrines,people get in line and get to ring once and if you were within 108th people in line, you can get to ring the bell. I usually heard the bell on TV with my family,never been to shrine to ring but it will be interesting to do in the future.
Clip 1: Monk ringing bell on New year's Eve
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Clip 2: people ringing bell on New year's Eve
If you were a blog subscriber or reading this from facebook ,please click here to watch the video.
If you had a chance to visit Japan around New year,it will be interesting for you to see this bell ringing event. It must be dynamic to see with your eyes.
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