We burned down New Year's ornaments that we made using rice plants at the end of last year.
A few rice cakes, oranges, some old notes from temple or shrine were also burned with them.
After burning them, we took out scorched rice cakes and oranges from the ash to eat them.
I ate rice cakes with boiled red beans wishing for good health and good luck of this year.
Rice cake with sweet red beans was very delicious.
We call this event ' TO-N-DO YA-KI' in Japanese.
This is the final event of this New Year.
It's nice that you had the dondo yaki for your own. Here in my city, it's not been recommended to burn something outside in the house even if it's in our own garden. Life is getting difficult in a city but we should keep our culture one way or the other. Right? I brought our ornaments and sacred おふだ to the neighboring shire and threw them into the big open fire. Thanks for this topic and nice pictures.
今年もよろしくお願いします。
I live in the rural area, so it's O.k. to make a little fire outside our house or our yard.
I also think it's important to keep our culture.
こちらこそ今年も宜しくお願いいたします。