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| Food prepared for new year's |
Special food, called Osechi, are prepared for new year's during the first three days of January. Various dishes, which has auspicious meaning, are arranged in four-tiered lacquer boxes (three boxes for our cases in the above figure). The meaning of each dishes is as follows,
1: Simmered dishes (Nishime); Various meanings including luck
2: Fish cakes (Kamaboko); Luck
3: Sweet omelets (Datemaki); Well educated
4: Candied dried sardines (Tazukuri); Grain productiveness
5: Egg roulades (Nishiki tamago); Luck
6: Simmered black soy beans (Kuromame); Good health and long life
7: Mashed sweet potatoes (Kurikinton); Economif fortune
8: Simmered konbu rolls (Konbumaki); Descendants prosperity
9: Grilled yellow tails (Buri-no yakimono); Successful career
10: Vinegar octopuses (Sudako); Luck
11: Vegetable kuai (Namasu); Luck
12: Salted herring roes (Kazunoko); Grain productiveness and descendants prosperity
13: Vinegar lotus roots (Subasu); Bright fortune perspective
14: Grilled prawns (Ebino yakimono): Long life
15: Vinegar roots (Su-gobou); Plentiful hervest
