Now Viewing: nengajouTag type: General Nengajou (年賀状) are Japanese New Year's greetings postcards. "The Japanese have a custom of sending New Year's Day postcards (年賀状 nengajō) to their friends and relatives, similar to the Western custom of sending Christmas cards. Their original purpose was to give your faraway friends and relatives tidings of yourself and your immediate family. In other words, this custom existed for people to tell others whom they did not often meet that they were alive and well. "Japanese people send these postcards so that they arrive on 1 January. The post office guarantees to deliver the greeting postcards on 1 January if they are posted within a time limit, from mid-December to near the end of the month and are marked with the word nengajō. To deliver these cards on time, the post office usually hires students part-time to help deliver the letters." From < en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Japanese_New_Year#Postcards > See also: kanchuumimai - Winter greetings postcards shochuumimai - Summer greetings postcards zanshomimai - Late-Summer greetings postcards Related tags: new_year akeome kotoyoro happy_new_year chinese_zodiac Other Wiki Information Last updated: 05/01/15 1:48 PM by surveyork This entry is not locked and you can edit it as you see fit. |
     
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