gamera 0 Posted February 3, 2007 Share Posted February 3, 2007 What are you planning for this Setsubun day Feb.3rd? Link to post Share on other sites
Thunderbird2 0 Posted February 3, 2007 Share Posted February 3, 2007 While I have heard about the throwing beans and often see the sumo guys do it on tv, I don't really know what it is! Link to post Share on other sites
indosnm 0 Posted February 3, 2007 Share Posted February 3, 2007 I'm going to wear a mask and have my kids throw beans at me! Link to post Share on other sites
indosnm 0 Posted February 3, 2007 Share Posted February 3, 2007 I'm going to wear a mask and have my kids throw beans at me! You forgot that on ya poll. Link to post Share on other sites
rach 1 Posted February 4, 2007 Share Posted February 4, 2007 Funny seeing on the news the kids crying their eyes out at being scared of the oni. Poor kids! Link to post Share on other sites
indosnm 0 Posted February 5, 2007 Share Posted February 5, 2007 My oldest boy didn't want to open the door coz he thought the oni was out there waiting! At least this year he didn't cry at kindy! Link to post Share on other sites
gamera 0 Posted February 5, 2007 Author Share Posted February 5, 2007 Quote: Originally posted by Thunderbird2: While I have heard about the throwing beans and often see the sumo guys do it on tv, I don't really know what it is! T-bird2, it's getting happiness coming into your house & punching away the oni by throwing beans against oni. You can get your age + 1 number of beans to eat! When I was a kid, I wanted more beans but now..... Too much! Link to post Share on other sites
gamera 0 Posted February 5, 2007 Author Share Posted February 5, 2007 What kinda mask do you wear, then Indo? Link to post Share on other sites
indosnm 0 Posted February 5, 2007 Share Posted February 5, 2007 Nah gams... Didn't end up waering a mask. I just threw the beans out of the front door with the kids. Then ate a bean for every year of age.. getting more and more every year! Link to post Share on other sites
SirJibAlot 0 Posted February 5, 2007 Share Posted February 5, 2007 Man....I threw beans, ate beans, ate maki sushi while facing a specific direction and instructed not to talk...maybe my wife is messing with me but I don't get this tradition at all.... Link to post Share on other sites
minus 1 Posted February 5, 2007 Share Posted February 5, 2007 Sir Jib, I think it has something to do with beans..... On tv just now they had a "Been Throwing Ranking". Link to post Share on other sites
indosnm 0 Posted February 5, 2007 Share Posted February 5, 2007 Quote: Originally posted by SirJibAlot: Man....I threw beans, ate beans, ate maki sushi while facing a specific direction and instructed not to talk...maybe my wife is messing with me but I don't get this tradition at all.... She's taking the piss! Actually it's true! (she's not taking the piss) Link to post Share on other sites
snobee 0 Posted February 6, 2007 Share Posted February 6, 2007 Bean there...! Link to post Share on other sites
bushpig 0 Posted February 6, 2007 Share Posted February 6, 2007 ba boom! Link to post Share on other sites
gamera 0 Posted February 6, 2007 Author Share Posted February 6, 2007 Quote: Originally posted by SirJibAlot: Man....I threw beans, ate beans, ate maki sushi while facing a specific direction and instructed not to talk...maybe my wife is messing with me but I don't get this tradition at all.... SJA, if I remember correctly, this eating a roll sushi facing a certain direction was created roughly 25 ( maybe a bit more ) years ago in Osaka when I was a uni student. I worked for a sushi restaurant for a part time ( arubaito ), it was not that popular to do that at that time but sushi restaurants tried to make it popular. So it was not quite an old 'tradition' compared with Japan's thousands years' history. Link to post Share on other sites
peterson 0 Posted February 21, 2007 Share Posted February 21, 2007 Hey what is that sushi facing a certain way thing from then? I have never heard of that one. I know about sleeping in a certain direction.. Link to post Share on other sites
number9 0 Posted February 21, 2007 Share Posted February 21, 2007 Ehomaki sushi "tradition" spread nationwide thanks to clever marketing by a combini chain. Link to post Share on other sites
akibun 0 Posted February 27, 2007 Share Posted February 27, 2007 I did not hear about that tradition for sushi at all. I just eat it! Link to post Share on other sites
SirJibAlot 0 Posted February 27, 2007 Share Posted February 27, 2007 Well, my wife is from Osaka, so maybe that explains it - if the tradition started from there... Link to post Share on other sites
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