Today is the day Japanese celebrate “coming of age day”. When you turn 20 years of age in Japan you celebrate this by dressing up in a traditional Kimono, male and female both、although sometimes the male will wear a suit instead.
きょうは成人の日です。日本では、二十歳に成人のお祝いをします。女性は振り袖やスーツ、男性は袴や背広をきます。
What this means for the new batch of 20 year olds is that they can now legally Vote, Smoke and most importantly Drink.
日本で二十歳になると言う事は、法律的に投票権を獲得し合法的に喫煙と飲酒が認められるという事です。
Walking the streets of Tokyo today you would see many 20 years old enjoying this special day.
今日東京の至る所で、成人の日を迎えた新成人が目につきました。
As you have probably worked out this is also my Japanese lesson for the day:-)
私が英語と日本語でこのようにタイプするのは、私のかかせない日本語レッスンです。¥(^^)/
I do my best.
がんばってますよ。
This post is tagged Coming of age festival, せいじんのひ, 成人の日
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Interesting post …. i braved the cold today myself and got out and about to take a few photos.
Where did you take that photo??
明治神宮 Meiji Jingu, but I didn’t take this particular shot. I wasn’t brave enough to go photo hunting in the cold today.
For a closer look at 明治神宮 Meiji Jingu have a look at my panorama on my .Mac site.
http://homepage.mac.com/paulhartrick/PhotoAlbum3.html
I was at Meiji Jingu about a week ago with a friend who wanted to visit their within the first 3 days of the year … a must see for any travellers to Japan.
Panorama looks great!
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