Japanese New Year's Tradition  

I've never heard about that and neither have I heard of any such customs in my country. Tonight I have read tons and tons of posts on myLot of people talking about their different new year's eve customs though and asking if anyone else has similar customs. I have heard of arranging round fruits in a bowl for good luck, to I don't even remember what. I'm sure you'll get some interesting responses :)

Yes I think I noticed this custom before when I was studying there in Japan. For those who are working, they will have around 3 to 4 days leave before new year.New Year is the most important celebration in Japan, just like Christmas.It's good to clean your house before new year, for a total fresh and clean New Year.Happy New Year to you.

hi,rogue! i know its customary to do that in most far east countries such as China,Japan and Korea..people like to clean their house to welcome the coming new year and wish good luck for themself and their friends in the new year..a little difference between Chinese and Japanese is our Chinese prefer doing that around Chinese Tradition New Year which is called Spring Festival while Japanese do that just before the New Year...anyway,its great u have cleaned your house to start the new year..wish u good luck in the new year...

Three days!! *GROAN* Isn't that too much of cleaning? Anyway, everything gets dirty again...I wouldn't clean three days...maybe a few hours. :)

Cheers and happy Mylotting

Hello friend. It is the same with us in China. We give a thorough cleaning to our house before we have our New Year's Eve however cold the weather is. Happy New Year to you, friend.

If anybody volunteers to help me to clean my house I would not complain. I like cleanliness but these days are the most where we slack when we come to housekeeping. We are busy with parties and visiting relatives. There is little time left for cleaning.

Hey in most of the customary we have the choice of cleaning up the house and every possible thing. Its because we are heading towards a new year we wish everything should be new and you have done a great job in cleaning up your home.

Is there any Japanese or any voluneer who would like to perform the Japanese tradition in Malta? I would be willing to give him my home key to find it clean when I return home from work.

that sounds good. hope it was enjoyable for you and all that came to spend the new years celebration with you.

hiya rouge!

I'm not Japanese either but here in Scotland we do the same (or at least my family do lol) We still call it spring cleaning which sounds odd as it's being done in the winter I like the concept of starting the New Year with a clean house too... but don't know why.


Alice