Japanese New Year Greeting Card 2020

The traditional winter holiday for the japanese is oshogatsu literally first month or new year.

Japanese new year greeting card 2020. The japanese new year 正月 shōgatsu is an annual festival with its own customs. Japanese new year greetings. The new year in particular is the most important time of the year in japan equal to the christmas or the yuletide season in the west.

The japanese custom of sending written new year s greetings dates back to at least the heian era 794 1185 when the nobility started to write such letters to people who lived too far away for the usual face to face new year greetings. Since 1873 the official japanese new year has been celebrated according to the gregorian calendar on january 1 of each year new year s day 元日 ganjitsu however some traditional events of the japanese new year are partially celebrated on the first day of the year on the modern tenpō calendar the. In japan greeting people with appropriate japanese words is very important.

Wish good cheer and happiness on japanese new year to your friends and family with these beautiful and lovely cards. The first day of january became the official new year s day since five years after the meiji restoration. Every year japanese households send and receive new year s postcards called nengajō 年賀状.

History says until 1873 during the meiji era 1868 1912 celebration of the japanese new year was based on the chinese lunar calendar. When japan s postal service followed europe s lead and created postcards in 1871 they were the perfect. The japanese send new year s cards nengajo rather than christmas cards if you want to send nengajo to your japanese friends here are common greetings and expressions you can write to wish them all the best for the new year.

The cards are sent to friends and family as well as to people you have work connections with. Japanese new year celebrations are quite different from typical western ones. If you post your cards in japan before the cut off date in late december the postal service guarantees to deliver them on january 1st.

On the occasion of shogatsu may the new year be fruitful.