Transcript Nengajo: Japanese new year cards (PPT)

Nengajo
Japanese New Year cards
© NSW Department of Education and Communities, 2013
Funded by the Australian Government Department of Education, Employment and Workplace
Relations through the National Asian Languages and Studies in Schools Program.
Nengajo
• New Year is a very special holiday in Japan. People visit
relatives, neighbours, friends and colleagues – anyone who
has done favours for them throughout the year. People also
send out postcards, which are all delivered on New Year’s Day.
• The cards may include information about what people have
been doing and what their new year’s resolutions are. You
may also see the phrase Akemashite omedeto gozaimasu
(Happy New Year).
Nengajo
• The cards are decorated with coloured paints, black ink, paper
cutouts, etc. Recently, people have started creating cards with
their computers, incorporating photographs and other
images.
• Popular images include animals from the Chinese zodiac,
which moves in a 12 year cycle.
Chinese zodiac animals
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2010
2011
2012
2013
2014
2015
2016
2017
2018
2019
2020
Tiger
Rabbit
Dragon
Snake
Horse
Sheep
Monkey
Rooster
Dog
Pig
Rat
Activity
• Look at the nengajo on the following slides.
• What sort of images and/or information do you see
on the postcards?
• Make a nengajo to send to a classmate next year.
Include the appropriate zodiac animal and the phrase
Akemashite omedeto gozaimasu! (Happy New Year!)
• Find out more at http://webjapan.org/kidsweb/explore/calendar/december/neng
ajo.html
nengajo, by James Kilfiger CC BY 2.0
2010-nengajyo, courtesy of Renfield Kuroda