Randoseru and the New school term

The new school term begins in April in Japan.
My children goes to school.


An entrance ceremony is held on April.
You can see cherry blossom and children with new randoseru.
It is Japansese beautiful spring scene.



Randoseru is popular to overseas as a fashionable bag.
However , we think it is  only  for children, so adults hardly have randoresu.

More than 20years ago, randoseru became in fashion.

Red and Wite

You often see the combination of red and white at celebrations in Japan.

 

It calls “Kohaku”.

 

Kohaku has deeply meaningful for Japanese people.

 

For example,   the stage has a red and white striped curtain at a wedding ceremony, an entrance ceremony, a company ceremony.

 

 

They often hand out red and white buns with a bean-jam filling or rice cakes at these ceremony.

 

There are many theories about the prevalance of the combination.

The most popular one dates back to 12th century,

when the two leading clans, the Tairas, or Heike and the Minamotos, or Genji,fought a series of battles.

The conflict ended with the fall of the House of Taira and the establishment of the Kamakura government by the Minamotos.

The Taira clan flew red flags on the battlefield, while the Minamoto side used white ones, so red and white came to represent the opposing forces.

Japanese personal seal

There are many documents in Japan that require a personal seal.

I had a personal seal made when I came of age at 20.

I need it to open a bank account.

We use personal seals when we recieve our packages.

 

They say such seals date back more than 5000 years, to acient Mesopotamia.

The concept made its way to Europe and China, then Japan.

 

In these days, there are vorious design of seals.

 

 

 

They are able to use as official seals.

 

There are more cases in which a signature is acceptable,

but you may order your own seal,  you can enjoy Japanese style more.