Japanese New Year’s Cards: “Nengajyou”
An important New Year’s tradition in Japan is to send out New Year’s greeting cards, called nengajyou. The cards often feature the animal from the Chinese zodiac for that year (2006 is the year of the dog). Although these cards usually take the form of postcards, several Japanese LEGO bloggers have posted wonderful electronic New Year’s cards.
First up, mumu posts a wonderful card on I Love Cute LEGO!:
And ayucow does likewise on Bacalogue:
Finally, Edwin (a New Zealander posting in Japanese) has posted a pug-themed card made by Edamame05. (Linking directly to the image doesn’t seem to work, so click the link to see the card.)
December 28th, 2006 at 9:30 pm
[...] As I explained on New Years Day 2006, Japanese homes begin to fill up with new years cards — called nengajyou — this time of year. [...]
December 31st, 2006 at 11:37 am
[...] Next, a new years card (or nengajyou) from mumu and his wife: [...]
January 1st, 2008 at 1:59 pm
[...] fans. Many of the creations are in the form of New Years cards, or nengajou, which I wrote about back in 2006 (check out the 2007 roundup as [...]