On about February 3 (the day before the first day of spring), we throw and scatter roasted soy beans (we call it mamemaki) inside and outside of our house.
We do that with saying “Oni wa soto Fuku wa uchi” that means Demon be gone, good fortune come in. We wish for good health.
It is said that eating beans as much as our age (our age number) after mamemaki make us health.
We also have a custom to place a holly branch and the head of a sardine at our entrance to prevent the demon entering our house.
In some kindergarten or a nursery school, teachers disguise themselves as demon and let children throw beans.
Sometimes children make their handmade mask in the kindergarten or a nursery school class.
Recently there is also a custom like this:
On the night of Setubun(February 3) biting a thick sushi roll (we call it Ehomaki) with closed eyes and silently bring us good luck.
When we do this we have to face the lucky direction of the year. (for example North-northwest in 2017)
It is said that this custom originally came from Osaka or the center of Kinki area in Japan.
And convenience store 7-eleven named rolled sushi Ehomaki and spread it all over the country.
But nowadays not all Japanese do mamemaki on February 3.
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It is said that eating beans as much as our age (our age number) after mamemaki make us health.
We also have a custom to place a holly branch and the head of a sardine at our entrance to prevent the demon entering our house.
In some kindergarten or a nursery school, teachers disguise themselves as demon and let children throw beans.
Recently there is also a custom like this:
On the night of Setubun(February 3) biting a thick sushi roll (we call it Ehomaki) with closed eyes and silently bring us good luck.
It is said that this custom originally came from Osaka or the center of Kinki area in Japan.
And convenience store 7-eleven named rolled sushi Ehomaki and spread it all over the country.
But nowadays not all Japanese do mamemaki on February 3.
To tell the truth, I did mamemaki several times when I was a child, but now I don’t.
And I have never eaten Ehomaki on the night of Setubun. (Although I have eaten roll sushi.)
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