Happy New Year 2020! - It's the Year of the Mouse/Rat!

Happy New Year Everyone!

  Did you know that 2020 is the Year of the Mouse (子年)?

      It has been custom that many people in Japan send New Year's cards, which is called nengajyo (年賀状), to friends, families and business associates. Many New Year's cards have illustration of the animal of the year in them.

     However, more and more Japanese people have decided to stop sending traditional nengajyo these years because writing nengajyo makes people very busy and costs money. When I was child, my family used to send hundreds of nengajyo every year. Especially, my grandmother used to write over a hundred of nengajyo with Japanese fude pen (筆ペン), brush pen. It took her several weeks to finish writing up all nengajyo. More people use PCs and printers to make beautiful nengajyo and save time, but it's also not simple to print out all different addresses if you want to make hundreds of nengajyo. That's why now more people are choosing not to send physical nengajyo, and the younger generation send nengajyo to friends for free by e-mail, SNS and etc.

      New Year's day is the most important day for Japanese people, but I haven't sent physical nengajyo since I moved to the U.S. I prefer sending e-cards. I made this nengajyo for my readers. With using my iPad and Apple Pencil, I drew this mouse wearing a red vest and carrying a koban (小判), a Japanese oval gold coin in Edo period. Red is the color of New Year and means joy and good luck, and koban means good luck with money. :)   

      　Wish you a very happy new year!　






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