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It’s my favorite season, autumn in Japan. Best season for foods, sports, book reading, travelling, etc., etc… At the same time though, do we have to think forward and forward, to prepare for end-of-year and comming new year? It’s our culture to eat Osechi cuisine on a new year day and several days after then. Osechi is usually precooked by a housewife from new year eve so that we can eat them while new year days since we have 5 or 6 days holiday at a new year time and stores are considered all closed.

But that’s an old story. Japanese are known as “work too much people” (I do dislike this but…) and nowadays especially at Tokyo area, grocery stores are open from very new year’s day, (1st January) so there’s no functional or practical meaning that we have to stick to this old custom any more, if only we discard all the meaning Osechi cuisine has.

Osechi cuisine as you can see, consists of many kinds of foods. Each food has a meaning such as longevity. These days stores open from 1st Jan. and there should be no reason that we have to eat Osechi day after day, but in spite of that, the trend goes opposite. Deluxe Osechi sells so well and people are willing to pay for a beautiful and tempting Osechi boxes.

It’s weird to write this but I’m personally bored of my life in Japan. How much I wish I could live a pretty new life somewhere else than Japan where I can learn the custom or culture from zero. So I’m totally fed up with the same thing coming year after year. Having Deluxe Osechi might allow me to have some “change” from ordinary every year so far? I doubt. I’m dying for a change!! Blogging to get connected with people from other countries at least gives me a little feeling as if I were out of here. It’s funny some of my blog readers dream to come or live in Japan, while I dream to do that out of Japan!