Stomack should be 80%

In Japan, there is a word, Hara(stomach) Hachibunme(80%). I hear that this is a word in a book written in the Edo period. When you eat, you shoud not eat until you get full, you should stop at about 80%. By doing so, it seems that you can maintain good health. The average life span of Japanese people is known to be long. I introduced Japanese saying.
Can you tolerate 80%?

Miso pan (bread)

  Miso bread is sold in my hometown. This is something that contains miso in the bread. I think that many people know miso soup, but few people know miso bread. Actually, even Japanese people may not know miso bread so much. My wife is from a nearby prefecture, but I did not know miso bread. My son likes miso bread and eats it well.
 An article may be posted on this blog about once a week.

Kindergarten

   My child has turned 3 years old. From April this year, kindergarten will begin. It is supposed to be in kindergarten or nursery school before elementary school. Japanese parents have to choose between entering kindergarten or putting them into nurseries from an earlier age after the child is 3 years old. In recent years, Japanese economy is not good, so parents of dual acts have increased. There are also such circumstances, it seems that there are many parents to put in nursery school. In my home, we decided to put it in kindergarten from the idea that we want my son to have as long as possible contact time with his mother. My wife has no friends around my house. Because parenting stress tends to accumulate, I think that she can make as many friends as possible after children enter kindergarten.
In Japan, kindergarten starts in April. Elementary schools, junior high schools, high schools and other schools all begin in April. The time when school begins may vary from country to country. As the cherry blossoms are in full bloom in April, Japanese people think of the scenery where cherry blossoms bloom when it says entrance ceremony.
When writing this sentence, I used the Google's translation function. I found some words that I needed to correct. But almost of all sentenses may be OK.

Happy New Year!!

Hello, this blog is still alive.


  Today was the day when we eat special rice in our culture.


The name of the rice is "Nana kusa gayu".


I have already introduced the culture before.

   There are seven kinds of vegetables in the rice. We eat it


so that we do not have a cold in this season.


   I did not give it to my son because I was not sure if it's


OK as baby food.


  The rice has no taste. So, the taste is not good. You may


add some salt or soy sauce if you like.

My child was born.

My child was born last month.
I will write something interesting while we raise up him.

In Japan, when a mother has a baby, the hospital gives
her "umbilical cord" if you ask for, as the commemoration.

It seems to be unique to Japanese culture.

Do you have such a culture in your culture?

And parents put it in the box of paulownia wood.

We did so.

However, umbilical cord looks strange.

When people have a child, people visit a shrine to pray for child's

health a few month later.

We are planning to visit to a neighbor shrine in March or April.

The end of the year

  This year is about to end. The public office, such as
city hall is open until 28th December.
  In this season, people are very busy.
  In Japan, we have a custom of sending a post card,
called ''Nenga-jou''
to your friends, relatives, co-wokers, and so on at
the beginning of the year. It is a sort of greeting card.
 If your friend live outside  of your prefecture, you have
 to post your post cards until 25th so the cards arrive
on 1st January.
   It's good oppotunity to say hello to your friends
who you haven't talked to for a long time.
  There days, there are some TV shows that introduce
big news in this year.


  We say, ''Yoi otoshi wo!!(Have a good New Year)''
 when you say good-bye to someone.

A photo of the countryside in Japan

  When you visit an unknown place, sometimes you may find a nice scenery.
It may not be a historical place but a just a simple road.
  One day, I found a road.
  It was just a simple road.
  But it seemed to be something warm in my heart.