Silver Week and Ohigan

00:00:16: and thank you for joining me, Iris Manu from Japanese with Manu.

00:00:21: And today's topic is the Silver Week!

00:00:24: You might have heard about The Golden Week which was at the end of April in the beginning May.

00:00:30: The silver week is quite rare.

00:00:34: There are like two holidays, but only if very specific things happen.

00:00:41: then you have a long consecutive five days holiday and actually this has happened three times so far.

00:00:47: It's the third time it ever happens!

00:00:50: So let's talk about... first of all we'll talk about these specific days or what happens on each single day?

00:00:59: We start basically this Saturday.

00:01:03: It's the travel day, I would say.

00:01:05: Like people leave to go their final destination People go on holiday and visit relatives.

00:01:14: People might stay at home like i do because... I just don't want all of you around And hotels are super expensive.

00:01:23: Getting a seat on a Shinkansen is really difficult.

00:01:25: You have to book well in advance otherwise something happens That you wouldn´t wanna have.

00:01:32: don't get a seat.

00:01:33: That can happen!

00:01:34: I mean, not sure if i told you about this when it came back from Austria like...I spent three weeks in Austria this summer and coming back was like the holy day national holiday And It Was Like Super Difficult to Get A Seat for Me & My Son We Had To Wait Like Four Hours To Get On The Train To Get Like A Ticket With Very Like.

00:01:54: There Were Enough Spaces Available For Us Anyway.

00:01:58: So Saturday Is The Travel Day a bunch of people going from the bigger cities, especially from Tokyo to other places.

00:02:07: Then there is Sunday basically whatever people do it's not like designated holidays just because it's Sunday.

00:02:16: and then on Monday we have the Kero no hii respect for the aged day.

00:02:22: kero means respect the elderly people and he means date.

00:02:29: So, the story goes that after the Second World War The younger people wanted to thank the early people who helped during this specifically difficult time for them.

00:02:45: In Hyogo Prefecture a small city started this thing and only from nineteen sixty-six this became an official holiday And it used to take place on September fifteenth, but since two thousand three the rule changed.

00:03:05: so that is always celebrated as a third Monday in September.

00:03:10: That's really important!

00:03:10: So... The Third Monday in september which is the twenty-first this year.

00:03:16: Twenty first September Yes Alright then September.

00:03:22: the twenty-second is something we call 国民の休日.

00:03:29: 国名 basically means citizens and 休日 means holiday, We will take a close look at the kanji later on.

00:03:36: It's not like... A holiday!

00:03:38: Holiday?

00:03:39: Like it isn't like a rule but very special one.

00:03:42: This is only a holiday because September twenty-first is a holiday and September twenty third, it's a holiday.

00:03:50: And if there are like two holidays then one normal day in between this normal days becomes... A holiday!

00:03:57: Then its called Cetician's Holiday.

00:03:59: The reason for long time Japan didn't really have lots of Holidays.

00:04:05: So to make up that certain rules were introduced.

00:04:10: For example another one was If the holiday falls on Sunday Then the next Monday will be a holiday.

00:04:17: Just to make up for that, right?

00:04:19: Yeah!

00:04:21: And on September the third it's Shubunnohii, The Ordinal Equinox Day –the day where they at night are exactly the same length.

00:04:33: And the thing is, shubu no hi is something similar to obon.

00:04:38: So people go to family graves and pay their respect to the ancestors.

00:04:43: I will go into more detail later on.

00:04:45: This date is astronomical determined.

00:04:49: so like usually it's under twenty second or under thirty third.

00:04:53: It's not one specific day!

00:04:57: We have the twenty first The respect of the aged because he was a third Monday, and the Shubu no hi is the twenty-third.

00:05:12: So like specifically because of that we have this five day holiday right?

00:05:21: Yes!

00:05:22: Alright.

00:05:23: so um... what's there something else I wanted to talk about ?I think it's like the main important thing you need to know ,so thats why we have like five consecutive holidays this year.

00:05:36: Alright, let's take a look at some important vocabulary.

00:05:41: So we have the word Shuku jitsu.

00:05:43: It is not same as Kyu jitsu.

00:05:45: it sounds similar because Jitsu stands for Day.

00:05:49: The shuku comes from the word Iwau to celebrate something.

00:05:54: Maybe you've heard of Oivai which means celebration or even party.

00:06:00: That's the shuku is the Chinese pronunciation Iwau or Oewai, it's a Japanese pronunciation.

00:06:06: And Jitsu is one of several ways to pronounce kanji for date.

00:06:12: so you might know Hii or Ni or Nichi or Ka and this one is Jitsu.

00:06:22: as i keep saying there are many possibilities to read Kanji.

00:06:26: There're people who just like memorize all them but don't.

00:06:31: I think it's not a good idea to do that.

00:06:32: So what i suggest is memorize the words together with the kanji because just memorizing all of the pronunciations doesn't necessarily mean you are able afterwards pronounce the kanjic correctly, cause we don't know which exact reading its gonna be.

00:06:49: You could of course determine like Is It Gonna Be The Japanese Pronunciation or Chinese pronunciation?

00:06:55: But first off when you need to know which was the japanese and chinese one And then you need to know the rule that if it's one word consisting of one kanji, Then take a Japanese pronunciation.

00:07:06: If we have a word which consists several kanji You usually use the Chinese pronunciation or the Sino-Chinese.

00:07:15: Anyway Or the Japanese call it Onyome de kunyomi Kunyomi for the Japanese pronunciation on for the Chinese or from the like old Chinese derived pronunciation.

00:07:31: Alright, so Shikujitsu!

00:07:35: Then we have the word Renkyū.

00:07:39: Ren means consecutive like connecting and Q is that China's pronounci- Ren is also a Chinese pronunciation because you have one word to kanji.

00:07:48: Q is the Chinese pronunciation from Yasumi To take a break.

00:07:54: So it's Connecting breaks consecutive days of holiday And usually these are like three days of holiday.

00:08:02: Usually it's a sanrenkyu Three consecutive day off, but this time its gorenkyuu five consecutive days off.

00:08:12: Then you have the word for fall or for otten Aki.

00:08:17: It is interesting to know parts of kanji.

00:08:21: The left one means grain Or the grain radical and right one is fire.

00:08:28: So what do people do during fall or autumn.

00:08:32: They burn down the remaining parts of the plants they have harvested, especially rice.

00:08:38: so it's pretty common when you drive through in a countryside in Japan uh... You will see people burning off like the raining stalks of their rice plants.

00:08:49: yeah and that is why we have the kanji which are these two kanji parts forming the kanjima foal.

00:08:55: then keiro respect for the elderly or for the aged people.

00:09:01: The kei means respect, you might have heard the word keigo which means like specifically that a specific Japanese way of speaking or sounding polite to the Japanese polite language.

00:09:14: and derou means old person.

00:09:17: Keiro respecting de-elderly.

00:09:21: There are several words what can be used in an elderly person.

00:09:26: Another one is otoshi yori O-toshi yori.

00:09:31: Toshi means age or year, and yori means to come near but to reach.

00:09:39: so you come near a certain age the H when you die.

00:09:43: Yeah There is also another way which we'll take close look at it When I talk about this specific day little more Then shubun Shubu.

00:09:56: shubu is the Chinese pronunciation of Aki And BUN means to part or divide.

00:10:02: So SHU-BUN is the ordinal equinox.

00:10:07: You might know the kanji for BUN, it's also in MINUTE like PUN or FUN Like IPUN one minute NI-FUN two minutes SAM-PUN three minutes YONG-FUNG four minutes GOFUN five minutes DOP-BUNG six minutes.

00:10:36: I do not count the way Japanese people do.

00:10:38: Japanese people use like one, two three but i just go with my thumb for it's one-two-three.

00:10:44: that's like my way anyway.

00:10:48: then next word you have here on a list is That's specific time in fall and especially like the three days before Shubham, before the autumn equinox.

00:11:01: And plus the day of optimal equinoxes plus to three days afterwards.

00:11:06: so it's basically a week in seven days.

00:11:09: that is called O'Higan.

00:11:11: I will take close look at this later on.

00:11:14: just memories o'higan means other side where the death souls are waiting.

00:11:25: then Ohakamaeri.

00:11:27: Ohakamairi.

00:11:29: Haka means grave, mairi is a really formal way of saying to go somewhere.

00:11:36: so it means to visit the grave or in front just makes it sound more politely.

00:11:41: Ohakkamaeri maybe you have heard Maerimasu?

00:11:46: Or Omiyamaeri means To Visit A Shrine or Temple.

00:11:53: It can also mean like to lose, like... Then people go on a trip.

00:12:05: On travel.

00:12:12: The ryō is the Chinese pronunciation of 旅. Tabi means trip or travel but in more pilgrimage way.

00:12:20: so if you got a pilgrimage there would be tabi and ko is the chinese pronunciation of ikimasu to go somewhere.

00:12:29: 旅行 To go on a trip.

00:12:33: And because it's holiday, there are lots of people!

00:12:37: Everything is crowded.

00:12:38: that means こむ or こんでいる.

00:12:42: Come is just the verb.

00:12:44: こんでiru describes a state of being crowded.

00:12:49: こんでいる It's the te form and いる means to exist.

00:12:53: Te from was iru abimasu.

00:12:55: The mobile version means something is currently happening or it's a state.

00:13:00: It's like the ING form in English.

00:13:04: And of course, because lots people are going on travel and trips we have traffic jams.

00:13:12: 住带 People go back to their family.

00:13:19: That's our specific word.

00:13:21: 既生 The key is Chinese pronunciation kaerimasu to go back home.

00:13:29: And kisei means province.

00:13:34: and now the Japanese Japan has not provinces but prefectures, before they have prefecture it was called a province so this set just represents like the old world.

00:13:51: that's why its called Kisei.

00:13:54: If you say, go back to your home country in a really polite way.

00:13:57: You would say the same key that Chinese pronunciation of Kaeru and Koku from Country Kuni going Back To Your Home Country And it's starting.

00:14:08: do become fall or It is fall.

00:14:12: now The most famous thing for Japan Is the redening off the leaves Of the momiji of Japanese maple tree.

00:14:23: And there are two words, basically.

00:14:25: The one is called hōyou Two times like o-hō-yō and the first one...the first kanji means red.

00:14:34: in the second one when it's leaf Hōyou Is the Chinese pronunciation of this kanji.

00:14:41: but these two kanji also have a Japanese pronunciation.

00:14:43: that's momiji.

00:14:45: Yes!

00:14:46: That's the word.

00:14:46: Momiji is the Japanese pronunciation.

00:14:48: It just means the red leaves off the the chap of the maple tree.

00:14:55: And Koyo sounds more polite and refers to all autumn foliage, basically not just only like the momenty but it's this exact same country with different pronunciation.

00:15:12: Then we have something which is called Tsuzuki.

00:15:14: It's a pampous grass, its specific symbol of autumn.

00:15:18: Its also being used as decoration material during Otsukimi.

00:15:25: Otsuki the moon, mi from to see and watch.

00:15:29: that's a moon viewing festival also like currently taking place in Japan.

00:15:36: Ootsukimi All right.

00:15:38: so That is most basic vocabulary I want you know.

00:15:44: And let us take look at some simple sentences and dialogues.

00:15:49: Konshuu wa renkyu desu.

00:15:54: Thank you desu.

00:15:56: Konshu this week, thankyou the consecutive days off.

00:16:03: When is Silver Week?

00:16:09: It means when.

00:16:15: If your a beginner of Japanese language The easiest thing that can do Try to pronounce English words in a Japanese way.

00:16:24: It raises the probability or possibility that Japanese people are able to understand you, like triple-the time.

00:16:31: So don't say silver week!

00:16:33: People have no idea but they'll say... Silver Week!

00:16:36: Ah, it's Silver Week.

00:16:48: When is Silver Week?

00:16:53: Right now.

00:16:56: Now.

00:16:58: Are we traveling?

00:17:03: Are we travelling?

00:17:04: Do take a trip?

00:17:09: I'm going to go to Kyoto with my family.

00:17:28: 家族と家旁はとても混んでいます。.

00:17:33: The Shinkansen is very, very crowded.

00:17:36: We had that one before to be crowded.

00:17:48: I go for the visiting graves.

00:17:51: we're going to visit a grave.

00:17:56: basically means like the object and not, what's that?

00:18:01: What is the objective of going.

00:18:04: The objective for going is the graves.

00:18:08: so I'm going... There are no visits it just the 行きます.

00:18:12: It says i am going to do something by going there.

00:18:17: So a goal has a final destination That's Ohakamai-ri.

00:18:26: Yes For example, if you say like I'm going...I'll go to itsushi.

00:18:34: Osushio tabeni ikimasu.

00:18:37: Tabe-ni comes from tabemasu to eat and If you said that i'd go do something You use this other word not in it's whole form Not the tabemasu or the masu form.

00:18:48: just remove the mas.

00:18:49: Tabemasu ni ikimasu is wrong.

00:18:51: Tabeni ikimasu I would go to it!

00:18:55: Osushiyo tabeni Here we go.

00:19:03: That's also something I teach in my A-one, two course.

00:19:06: that like a specific way or... Like i have a specific Way of naming my courses.

00:19:12: It is very European way to name My courses because well..I'm from Europe.

00:19:20: so yeah sorry for that Not from Europe.

00:19:25: and then the way you like, You have a one oh-one or one oh two something Like we had different ways of naming our courses at all levels.

00:19:33: Anyway!

00:19:34: You're gonna go to see your grandparents And ask them how they are?

00:19:39: I knew it was going say Ojii-chan, Oba-chan Genki desu ka?

00:19:45: Ojiii-chan is really cute way of referring to your grandfather.

00:19:50: It's like... Gramps Gramps, are you okay?

00:19:57: How're ya doin'?

00:19:59: And Obaha-chan is like... Granny!

00:20:02: Obaha chan, o genki desu ka?

00:20:11: Yeah.

00:20:12: That's the first part and let's take a closer look at vocabulary for day one For Like The Day Where Everybody Is Like Traveling To Their Destination.

00:20:22: We have that word, shinkansen.

00:20:25: So Shinkansen basically means New Kan Means the trunk, the trunk life of a tree and sand means line.

00:20:35: The new trunk-line I mean you could like imagine that if you build Shinkansen it is high speed train Like...the part where road work goes needs to be pretty straight.

00:20:54: So you have cut lots trees so they can make this straight line And now we'll get a lot slopes.

00:21:01: That's why it has this kanji.

00:21:05: Then we have the word to transfer, change trains.

00:21:08: norikaeru or norikai is like a transfer.

00:21:12: Norikairu means two-transfer like the verb.

00:21:14: Norikae is like the noun of a transfer.

00:21:19: The nori means To enter a train Like to enter a means of transportation Like to board a train.

00:21:28: The kae means to exchange something Norikae.

00:21:35: Then another word which is really important especially when you take a train during crowded times, shiteiseki.

00:21:45: That means like reserved seat.

00:21:46: Sekii means Seat.

00:21:48: Shitei means to point out or pre-determine something in it once.

00:21:56: So the she means finger...or to point at something actually because Yeah, and the T means like to determine.

00:22:05: So by pointing at something you determine it.

00:22:07: so its reserved a reserved seat.

00:22:16: The opposite word is That's a non-reserved seat.

00:22:20: Do you mean free?

00:22:22: Like freedom A Free Seat Non-Reserved.

00:22:27: The problem is that during these times right now, like doing Golden Week and doing Silver Week there are no non-reserved seats.

00:22:36: Just to... because I give a lot of people trying to get non-Reserved Seats There won't be enough seats for people.

00:22:44: So in order to prevent this problem they just erase all the non-Reserved Seat for this specific time, and all the trains are reserved seats only.

00:22:56: So like you really have to reserve a seat if you want be able to take this specific train I mean not only one specific train it's especially like the first thing in the last day of like the holiday season is really important to book a seat way in advance.

00:23:16: I'm not talking about one week, but at least for a month.

00:23:23: Because if you don't get a seat then it will be on the train which is fully booked or seats taken.

00:23:31: that's called manseki.

00:23:33: The same seiki means full.

00:23:39: We're gonna depart!

00:23:42: Departure in Japanese means shuppatsu.

00:23:47: The shu comes from shutsu, like to go out or leave.

00:23:54: And the patsu come form hatsu to start something.

00:23:59: Leave and start!

00:24:01: You'll start believing.

00:24:03: Shuppatsu.

00:24:05: When people for example families get on a par they just start before leaving.

00:24:12: everybody's like shuppatsu shinkou!

00:24:14: Let's go!

00:24:15: The arrival, or for the arrival in Japanese is 到着.

00:24:27: It means to arrive.

00:24:31: That's really interesting.

00:24:32: like there are lots of words In Japanese that have two kanji and both Kanji have the same Or similar meanings.

00:24:39: so 到著 it basically Is the same thing.

00:24:41: one interesting thing that 着 has several meanings.

00:24:44: I mean The Japanese pronunciation, there are like two Japanese pronunciations.

00:24:48: Usually it's only one Japanese and Chinese pronunciation here is a little different because I'm pretty sure that you know one of these Japanese pronunciation And that's 着る to wear clothing just the same as in 着物.

00:25:07: So 着いる means To Wear.

00:25:10: But the other pronounciation is すく and すく mean to arrive.

00:25:16: You know, when you put on clothing it arrives or comes closer to your skin.

00:25:21: so might be like a way to memorize that sku arrive and kiryu wear clothing are kind of similar.

00:25:30: we have like a similar meaning in several layers.

00:25:36: yeah all right.

00:25:38: So that's that Tochaku Arrival.

00:25:44: We already had the traffic jam but it was too tight.

00:25:51: And the high way in Japanese is 高速道路 means high speed.

00:25:58: The 高 means high, that's the Chinese pronunciation of Takai and 速 means speed.

00:26:04: 早い。高速、high-speed.

00:26:07: 道路 again That's like a word meaning highway or street but both Kanji de the 道 and the 路 basically means both like path or street away.

00:26:22: The 道, I'm pretty sure you know that's same as in きゅうどう or ちゅーどう or けんどう ,the way of something .

00:26:31: In てろ basically also mean straight.

00:26:32: so 道ろう is another one of these examples where we have two kinds which are similar for the same meaning.

00:26:42: to compromise one word.

00:26:48: Then we have the word kisei rashu.

00:26:52: So remember, Kisei is like when you go back home and the rashu that comes from rush to rush somewhere.

00:27:00: The Japanese people love their words.

00:27:02: in English language It's a dashi Over-crowded congestion Konzatsu The kon is the Chinese pronunciation of the komu And zatsu means like several, all kinds of things.

00:27:25: So it's push together or cramped together.

00:27:33: so that is better to make reservations.

00:27:35: A reservation in Japanese is yoyaku shimasu to reserve and then you need check-in at your hotel.

00:28:08: Let's take a look at the Keiro no hii, respect for the age today.

00:28:16: We have the word keiro and K as we don't miss to respect or honor.

00:28:22: basically K is the Chinese pronunciation.

00:28:26: The Japanese pronunciations, Uyamao... It's a word you don't usually use or hear.

00:28:32: so like you have heard it and not necessarily need to memorize it just remember that K that supported Uyamo was like oh I've heard this one before.

00:28:44: Then we had the word otoshiyori for elderly people.

00:28:50: Otoshiyoris are already very polite way like Rōjin isn't really polite.

00:28:56: They're all getting old and gene person.

00:29:02: That was something I wanted to tell you, they are all interestingly is also in the world for shrimp, ebi.

00:29:11: Ebi like kanji for ebi is umi that's the ocean.

00:29:16: And old person The ocean.

00:29:18: old person is ebi.

00:29:21: Shrimp is an old person in the ocean.

00:29:25: um, their backs are so like you know like uh slapped it.

00:29:30: they were just walking all the time.

00:29:32: Like these poor shrimps.

00:29:35: yeah and there is a more formal words compared to otoshiyori And that's kō rei sha The ko.

00:29:42: we had that one before.

00:29:43: Ko is the Japanese pronunciation of takai hai.

00:29:48: Re means age and sha means person high-age person.

00:29:53: kōreisha When you are grateful for the elderly people, You also have wishes for them.

00:30:02: You wish that they still had a long life And in Japanese it's called 長住.

00:30:10: 長 means long.

00:30:12: That is Chinese pronunciation of nagei.

00:30:16: Nagei means long and juu means life.

00:30:21: The kanji for juu.

00:30:23: I'm pretty sure you have seen it before, if you've ever gone to a Japanese restaurant where they serve sushi.

00:30:29: Because the sushi has two kanji and first one is exactly this one long life And another one means like... To administer Long Life.

00:30:41: If you eat sushi You live for a long time.

00:30:46: There's also Japanese pronunciation of these too That's kotobuki.

00:30:51: That also means like congratulations.

00:30:54: The grandparents, the formal one is SO-FU-BO.

00:30:59: So basically it means ancestors and the FU means that And the BO means mom.

00:31:06: so like the ancestor Ancestors dad and mom It's really a formal one.

00:31:12: usually you say OJI-CHANG or OBAA-CHAN as I said before like OJI CHANG is the grandpa OBAA CHANG IS the grandma And the chan makes it sound more cute.

00:31:22: Yeah, cuter You might give them some presents and you're gonna celebrate them as we said before to celebrate And...you show your gratitude.

00:31:38: Gratitude in Japanese is 感謝.

00:31:41: Kansha Kan means To feel Not only like to say thank you but also to apologize.

00:31:51: The thing is like, uh... Thank-you and Apologize in Japanese are really close.

00:32:00: so that's why sometimes people don't say thank-you But I'm sorry when we would say thank for something Then you wish them health!

00:32:10: Health in Japanese is 健康 And you might say Stay healthy.

00:32:18: always Like forever.

00:32:21: Itzuma demo genki de itte ne, itsumademo like forever.

00:32:27: Itsu means when, made until and the more even though or that basically mean no matter when.

00:32:40: so always Genki means healthy in good spirits, ite to be and ne is what I want.

00:32:49: it's affirmative Itzuma demo genki de itte ne.

00:32:53: Please stay healthy!

00:32:55: Right?

00:32:58: Alright, um... So what do people basically on the Kato?

00:33:05: no hi go and visit their grandparents?

00:33:17: Or I mean you could go cook a meal for them.

00:33:22: Ryori wo tsukuru Ryori o tsukuru.

00:33:28: Ryorii means meal or a dish tsukoru to make, Or gaishoku ni iku.

00:33:37: Gaishoku means like go to the restaurant and eat out to dine-out.

00:33:41: Gai means outside.

00:33:43: You might know this one as gaijin or gaikokuchin like foreigner.

00:33:48: And gai is Japanese pronunciation of soto outside.

00:33:55: Shoku is Chinese pronunciation.

00:34:03: Or you could go on a trip.

00:34:06: 旅行に行く.

00:34:09: You can also send them the letter.

00:34:12: 手紙を送る.

00:34:16: Tegami means letter.

00:34:17: Te is hand, gamit comes from gamit paper.

00:34:23: You write by hand like another piece of paper Or you can call them.

00:34:31: 電話をする The kanji for the phone, so like that form of a phone, then means electricity.

00:34:39: and what?

00:34:39: Means to talk.

00:34:41: Electric talk.

00:34:43: A phone!

00:34:44: A phone call.

00:34:45: yeah It's an electric talk.

00:34:50: Then a few words to the Kokumin.

00:34:52: no Kyu-jitsu.

00:34:52: Like this day between holidays You have... so the koku is Chinese pronunciation of kuni, country.

00:35:03: Min means people or citations.

00:35:05: So kokumin is like the citations for the people off-the-nation.

00:35:09: The qu.

00:35:10: as I said it's a chinese pronunciation of yasumi to take a break.

00:35:14: Jitsu specific pronounciation of day and Q. jitsu means like a day off Like arrest date.

00:35:23: Yeah Right Is there anything else i wanted to say?

00:35:32: Ah yeah, the next one we have is the Shubun.

00:35:35: no hi.

00:35:36: So the autumnal equinox day.

00:35:40: We already had Aki for autumn.

00:35:42: The bun to divide, shubun divides like in the midpoint of autumn.

00:35:47: so if I say the mid point of autumn you know that they've been using the lunar calendar from China And that means basically it's one month different.

00:36:03: So actually, if would be like... One month later and then or at the midpoint of autumn.

00:36:09: but Japanese use now our western style calendar in a Western style of dividing months?

00:36:18: It starts on January first not the way Chinese people do.

00:36:24: so yeah!

00:36:24: That makes sense.

00:36:25: from the old lunar calendar it will be exactly the middle of Autumn.

00:36:30: But actually, for now it's more like... well not yet.

00:36:33: Not yet the middle.

00:36:36: Great!

00:36:37: And I wanted to talk a little bit about Ohi-Gang?

00:36:41: I say ohi-gang is similar to obon at time in the year where you basically whizzed graves and think of your ancestors.

00:36:56: That's basically what people do.

00:36:57: They just go to graves, or they clean the graves that bring flowers and pray for them And bring bokko Or senkyo or senko.

00:37:06: It is like incense.

00:37:10: So...and because it's basically in the middle of autumn day & night are basically at same length.

00:37:22: This means This world and the other worlds are very near.

00:37:29: And there is a river, it's just like the Greek myth, like the sticks.

00:37:33: There is also a river in Japan.

00:37:37: In Buddhism That's called sanzu no kawa.

00:37:42: The three crossings or the three worlds come together here.

00:37:48: Sanzu No Kawa.

00:37:49: Kawa means River.

00:37:53: The word for ancestors is Gosenzo-sama.

00:37:58: The sen means like the same as in sensei, that mean before.

00:38:02: Sensei means to be born before a person who's older than you.

00:38:23: offer something to the deceased, give them a gift and that's usually called Osonae like an offering.

00:38:32: And it could be for example what we just call Ohagi.

00:38:36: Ohagi is rice ball with red bean paste.

00:38:40: you might know mochi, daifuku.

00:38:43: or you have the dough made of mochi rice in a dough And inside you have like the red bean paste.

00:38:53: Uhagi is different, The red bean pasty it's outside and Inside there is rice Not like the dough but like rice.

00:39:02: It has mochi on it Like a sticky rice But not pounded into mochi Just just like the rice itself.

00:39:09: This really one of my favorite Japanese traditional desserts.

00:39:16: You should try that one!

00:39:17: It's very nice Uh... Uhagi.

00:39:20: And another thing which is really important, and I'm pretty sure if you have watched anime or read manga before then most probably would've come across this specific kind of flower.

00:39:31: It's in Japanese it's called Higanbana.

00:39:35: So the Bana sense comes from Hana, from Flower, and Higan is like a specific period.

00:39:40: right now You know?

00:39:41: The day off the equinoxal date Three days before three days afterwards Like these whole week!

00:39:47: And...it basically the red spider lily.

00:39:51: and it pops up in Kimetsu no Yaiba, in Demon's Lair.

00:39:56: And Muzan basically became a demon because he got medicine made of blue spider lilies.

00:40:07: but there are actually not blue spider lillies.

00:40:08: It is just like...made-up But they're based on the red spider lilies.

00:40:12: The red Spider lillys are poisonous Japanese people or In Japan, you usually find them next to graveyards or also sometimes next to rice plants.

00:40:29: Not directly next to it but just because they prevent mice and rats from approaching the poison.

00:40:46: so you might see them next to great heroes.

00:40:50: And yeah, they said like this kind of like otherworldly feeling.

00:40:54: I mean the way they look.

00:40:56: it's kinda super beautiful but also kind of spooky if you ask me.

00:41:02: and they also pop up in New Yasha If You Have Seen That.

00:41:04: One is a little older anime from my age.

00:41:09: It was one of the first anime that i consciously watched because then knew there were anime All right.

00:41:17: What else did they want to tell you?

00:41:21: Yeah, there is... basically two o-higang in Japanese during the year.

00:41:25: There's the Haru Higan.

00:41:27: It's like a springer.

00:41:28: Haru means Spring and one in autumn which is right now in fall.

00:41:32: That's Aki Higan.

00:41:40: And also the Ohagi has two names.

00:41:45: Ohagi is how it's called in autumn because in autumn there is like a specific... it's a clover plant, bush clover which looks similar to that and then its called hagi.

00:42:00: And thats what you call the hagi!

00:42:02: In spring this same thing is called botamochi Because there are botan, it has a peony flower.

00:42:09: It also has a similar shape apparently.

00:42:12: That why in Spring they call it like that.

00:42:13: but basically it's just the same thing.

00:42:17: The rice and round is like the red bean paste.

00:42:20: Sometimes they also have soybean flour, a kinako on top of it.

00:42:24: that's also kind-of tasty And I think I made one with black sesame, yeah, like kurugoma.

00:42:31: That was also kinda tasty.

00:42:32: It's not difficult to make if you just have the mochi rice and the red beans paste because steam the rice then wrap around the red Bean Paste.

00:42:42: Yeah, yeah.

00:42:49: So like for the Higanbana.

00:42:51: so this is the spider lily.

00:42:54: There are other words The flower of the dead Shibito Bana.

00:42:59: She comes from she to die or death.

00:43:02: Bito is a Japanese pronunciation comes from hito person and Bana comes from Hana shibitobana.

00:43:10: In Sanskrit ,the Buddhist name.

00:43:12: It's called Manjushage Or people call it Hell Flower.

00:43:36: I think it's the second episode where they also talk about a specific flower and And the same G as in the Manjushage, because that means flower.

00:43:57: The shakuinage is orlenton and the manjushagae... yeah it's like another word for the spider only.

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