Thursday, June 2, 2011

Japanese new year 2011 (HD)

I was lucky to live this experience.
Japanese new year will start around a temple. You can drink hot sake and wait close to a fire to keep you warm. Around 11pm, monks will start the ceremony into the temple. Everybody will pray together until 11:45 pm.
Then everybody will out and go to a big gong. Monks will say a last pray, and make the gong ring at midnight. And everybody will make a queue and give a donation to the temple to make a wish and make the gong ring.
After it, I walked in Ueno park, and I could hear all the gongs of every temples ringing in the night. I will never forget it.

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