Teruteru-bouzu
Wednesday June 11, 2008
June is the rainy season (tsuyu) in Japan. It lasts until mid-July in most parts of Japan, except the northern island, Hokkaido. The Japanese children make a little doll called, "teruteru-bouzu" when they wish for a sunny day. They look like little ghosts that you'd see at Halloween. When I first saw little Halloween ghosts in North America, they reminded me of teruteru-bouzu. There is a song about "teruteru-bouzu." When we were little, we sang this song and flipped a shoe to the sky, and if it lands on its face it would be sunny tomorrow. Such simple fun, isn't it?
Japanese Translation
Japanese Translation
Comments
Ahaha… Boku wa chiisai toki, Doraemon no manga kara mita koto ga arimasu. Natsukashii na… ^_^
Watashi ha nihon ni iru toki, tomodachi ha minna tsuyu ni teruterubozu wo tsukutta! omoshirokattadesuyo…
donoyouni tsukutte wakaranai kedo! oshietekudasai ne! hehehe
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abe-sensei, konnichiwa!
romaji translation arigatou gozaimasu ^_^
nihongo no renshuu no tame ni, nihongo sakubun wo yomitai desu. demo ima sukoshi kanji ga yomemasu ne.
your romaji translation was helpful in helping me read the japanese version of your blog entry. arigatou gozaimasu.
I, too, made teru teru bozu when I was small. I remember that if we wanted it to rain, we were supposed to hang the teru teru bozu upside down.