Teruterubouzu
Wednesday June 17, 2009
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
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when i went to japan for a school, the tour guide taught us this song, but i dont think she taught us the entire song, she must have only taught us the first two lines because that is all that i remember. i’m trying to learn japanese, i want to get in touch with my culture, and i really want to try hard to learn japanese. i can already read and write hiragana and most of katakana, but everything else is a mess i cant remember sentence structure or hardly any vocabulary. i’m going to study your lessons and hope to advance a little. thank you so much for posting the lessons as well as your blog, i will try to keep up so that i can learn more about my culture.
Hey JC, you might want to try complimenting the About.com lessons with a great site I found called “Nihongo o Narau”. It has helped me a lot.
There is also Lang-8, where you write diary entries in the language you are studying and native speakers of that language correct your work. In return, you correct their entries in english.
Rosetta Stone helped me at first too. Plus, you can get the furigana on top of your kanji in Rosetta Stone.
Hope this helps!
Hi Namiko-sensei.
I have wandered for a long time, what these white “ghosts” may be.
Now I know it.
Thank you very much.