Japanese New Year's Words

What is Japanese New Year's Celebration called?

• おせち

• おぞうに

• おしょうがつ

• おもちつき

What do people say as a greeting on New Year's days?

• おたんじょうびおめでとうございます

• あけましておめでとうございます

• どうもありがとうございます

• おはようございます

In Japan, people send greeting cards for New Year. What is it called?

• ねんがじょう

• ふくわらい

• おとしだま

• かがみもち

Special meals are eaten on January 1-3. They consist of traditional dishes and served in a nest of boxes. What is it called?

• おせち

• おぞうに

• おもち

• おべんとう

Over the New Year's holidays, the ornamental mochi is placed in a household Shinto altar as an offering to the deities that visit on New Years. What is this mochi called?

• かがみもち

• さくらもち

• かしわもち

• まるもち

Choose all the seasonal decorations that people in Japan put up for New Year's holiday.

• かどまつ

• しめかざり

• ささのは

• ひなにんぎょう

Many people in Japan make a visit to a temple or shrine to wish for a happy and healthy New Year. What is this ritual called?

• おとしだま

• はつもうで

• かがみびらき

• じょやのかね

This is one of the traditional games for New Year. Blindfolded players place paper cutouts in a shape of the eyes, nose, mouth and eyebrows to put on an outline of a face. What is this traditional game called?

• こま

• たこ

• はねつき

• ふくわらい