Remember, it’s South-Southeast

Posted: February 2nd, 2011 ˑ Filled under: Expat-in-Japan ˑ  2 Comments

Eho-maki "Lucky Roll"

Tomorrow, February 3rd, is Setsubun in Japan. A time for throwing beans and unsuspecting cats (ok, throwing beans at cats not normal, but someone has to play the oni/devil) and eating a big sushi roll while facing the “lucky” directions while laughing but not uttering a word.

We got the sushi and beans, now just to figure out how to put an oni-mask on our cats…

For the curious, more on Setsubun:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Setsubun

2 Comments

  1. Kirsty_girl wrote:
    February 2, 2011 at 8:07 pm

    I would love to see an oni mask on a cat.
    Almost eight years in Japan and I’ve never done setsubun.

  2. Administrator wrote:
    February 2, 2011 at 8:27 pm

    If it’s a food-related custom, we pretty much do them all.
    I’ll try to get a photo of a masked cat, if we’re successful ;)