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'The Japanese Touch' |
| Section: LIFE / FAMILY |
| Author: Monica Sone |
| Publication: The world & I online |
| Issue Date: 12/1/1987 |
| Size: 2,164 Words, 11,930 Characters |
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New Year's, as my family observed it, was a mixture of pleasure and agony. I enjoyed New Year's eve which we spent together, waiting for midnight. On New Year's eve, no one argued when Mother marched us into the bathtub, one by one. We understood that something as important as a new year required a special sacrifice on our part. Mother said the bath was a symbolic act, that we must scrub off the old year and greet the new year clean and refreshed in body and spirit.
The rest of the evening we spent crowded around the table in the living room playing Karuta, an ancient Japanese game. It consisted of one hundred old classic poems beautifully brushed upon one hundred cards, about the size of a deck of cards. There was one set of cards on which were written the shimo no ku, the seco...
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... home, we nearly tore the door off its hinges in our rush to get out into the hallway for our wraps.
I staggered out at last into the frosty night, feeling tight as a drum and emotionally shaken from being polite for too long. I hoped on our next call our hostess would worry less about being hospitable and more about her guests' comfort, but that was an impudent thought for a Japanese girl.
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