Having walked in a plaintive October under the rain, then Brittany doesn’t find a November with no chilly days. The Christmas is just behind the misty curtain with no pain.
The chrismas night passed gently as usual and one year is passing again also in Yokohama. Of course, nothing is different from the rest. However, it would be a very interesting week in Japan from a religious point of view.
One of my friends, a Catholic, seemed to be busy with preparing the mass last week because he was a caretaker of his church. Then, until the New Year’s Eve after the christmas, many of temples of Buddhism are coming to be busy for preparing the bells on New Year’s Eve. A lot of people visit a temple midnight of the last day and hear 108 times bell ringing. At the new year morning, it will be a time to visit a shrine of the Shinto.