New Year's Eve,Oomisoka,大晦日、オオミソカ

One of the annual events to be held during New Year's Holiday in Japan Buddhism. It is to catch a temple bell(Joya no Kane (bells ringing out the old year)) in the time zone between midnight on the night of 31 December (New Year's Eve night). Bells of night falls hit 108 times in many temples.

It is customary to the buddhist priest joins his hands in prayer before striking a Joya- no- Kane bell.
In the temple engaged 108 times, 107 times out of 108 times struggle in the old year (December 31), and the other one hits the New Year (January 1).

However, in recent years, there seems to be a complaint that this night bell sound is noisy.

And, In this country people will practice eating soba noodles on the New Year's Eve from the Edo period.

The meaning eating soba is easier to cut than other noodles, so it means "to break disasters of the year a year", eat before the New Year's Eve at the New Year's Eve.

About soba, please see "Soba" of this blog.

I worked at a major food company that manufactures milling and edible oil in Japan, so it is pretty good to make tempura, and on New Year's Eve I am fried tempura every year.

  Joya no Kane,bells ringing out the old year

Tonight dinner on New Year's Eve, Soba with Tenpura which I cooked. 

 

My favorite images of the year,Kotosi-no-okiniiri-gazou,今年のお気に入り画像

This is the second installment of a two-series of this topic.

My favorite images of the year,Kotosi-no-okiniiri-gazou, 今年のお気に入り画像

This is the first installment of a two-part series of this topic for Osprey.

Rustic Bunting,Kashiradaka,カシラダカ

IUCN has positioned Rustic Bunting as an endangered species on December 8, 2016.

Category of migrant to Japan：Ｗｉｎｔｅｒ bird

 

 

Northern lapwing,Tageri,タゲリ

In the category of the IUCN　Ｒｅｄ　Ｌｉｓｔ：Ｌｅａｓｔ　cｏｎｃｅｒｎ

Category of migrant to Japan：Ｗｉｎｔｅｒ bird, Passage bird (Hokkaidou,Tohoku)

In Japan it is what I noticed by observing the winter migrant bird Northern lapwing ,Japanese name Tageri every year, but they are usually flying and eating in groups. One of them like the leader or boss of the group is always watching when I am closely watching their feeding time. And, if they sense something dangerous, that one scream aloud and fly away.

A battle in the early sunset

Osprey,Misago,ミサゴ

When I have sometimes watching the osprey which diving to get the target fish, I sometimes think that they may be diving to see the movement of the target fish.

I decided to call this a swings-diving strategy to find the movement of the fish.