Japan nationwide event called "Setsubun"！

I will today report on ritual of demon exorcism to do
from ancient times in Japan.

Japanese you can make at home and shrines and
 temples of Japan nationwide event called
"Setsubun" on February 3 is the day
before the first day of spring.

I mean the start of spring is the time when
 "Setsubun" is performed
in the ancient Japanese calendar.

In order to wish good luck and my mind,
that you come into the house of their own
along with the spring, I scare away bad luck
and demons who live in the minds of their own.

If you do at home ritual of "Setsubun", and
put out the light of all of the room and open
the front door and windows of the room.

Then, I hit as hard soybeans to the person
who wearing a mask of a demon.


【　↓　a mask of a demon　】

【↑　a mask of God　】


Shout at that time

"demon Get out! 
　Then, please enter the house of God is happiness."

This word must be kept screaming demon
until going out of the house completely.

When the demon went out completely from the house,
close the windows and front door, put the lights of the room.

And, facing all the lucky direction of the year,
I eat a sushi roll and hoping luck quietly.

【　↑Sushi roll　】


Ritual does not end here.

People who ate the roll sushi, eat one more than their age
 the rest of soybeans hit the demon.

In this way, by performing the ritual every year of
"Setsubun", to welcome the spring,
Japanese I hope to make a new year.

Upon completion of the "Setsubun" is a spring
on the ancient Japanese calendar,
but February is very cold indeed, feel that spring is difficult.

 However, watching the moment when buds of cherry
and plum swells a little bit at a time is a great landscape
of Japan is very elegant.