Festivals In Japan

Ne, Ne, we're gonna talk about festival in Japan this time.

Do you mind if we change the subject? Hehehe,,,

Well, this is several festivals I wanna share to you all.

Seijin Shiki is a festival which is held by a young man to welcome their twenty-year-old age. In the age of twenty is an adult stage of growth for them, because they already have citizenship right and right to give opinion. The girls usually wear kimono and take a picture together on that day.

Koinobori is a special festival for a family which have a son. It is held on every May 5th. A family which have a son waver a flag which have a form like a carp fish in the outside house. They decorate a samurai doll with its armor clothes and sword in the inside house as a symbol of strength.

Haru no Higan. Higan in spring time is happened around March 21th every year. Many people visit their family’s grave to pray for them who have been passed away.

Hanami is a party to watch sakura. It is held in the end of March or in the beginning of April. The time of sakura to blossom is different in one and another place, start from south territory. So, the time of  party to watch sakura is different too. They usually have a picnic below the tree.

Hinamatsuri is known as a doll festival. It is held on March 3rd. A family which have a daughter decorate a castle family doll and held a party. All the girls wear kimono and gather in front of hina doll shelf while eating a special cake like hoshimochi, arare’, etc.

Oshogatsu. Ganjitsu (on January 1st, the first day in one year) is held in Japan as a new year day. Commonly, during three days day after day Japanese people do not work. The beginning of this new year is called oshogatsu. All that day, Japanese people visit Shinto shrine and visit their family. The women wear a colorful kimono and drink sake together with their family, eating a special new year food that is called osechi ryoori. In front of houses are decorated a piece of pine on the pot with a pointed bamboo stem. This decoration is called kadomatsu.

Setsubun is a ceremony that is held on February 3rd or 4th. On twilight almost getting dark, the door is opened and people spread grain of  roast soybean peanut to every where in the house. It is done to chase away an evil spirit.

If

By. Kana Nishino

Romaji Lyric

Moshi ano hi no ame,

ga yande ita nara

Kitto surechigatte ita dake kamo

Itsumo toori no jikan ni

Basu ga kiteta nara

Kimi towa deau koto ga nakattanda ne

Moshimo sukoshi demo

Ano shunkan ga zurete tara

Futari wa chigatta unmei wo tadotte shimatteta

Kimi to onaji mirai wo

Zutto issho ni mite itai

Onaji hoshi wo onaji basho de

Mitsumete iyou yo

Kimi no egaku mirai ni

Watashi wa iru no kana

Onaji sora wo onaji omoi de

Miagete itai yo

Kuchiguse ya shigusa mo

Yoku nite kita futari

Marude zutto mukashi kara shitteru mitai da ne

Douji ni ME-RU shitari

Onaji koto omottari

Akai ito de hikiyoserareteru no kamo

Guuzen wa saisho kara

Mou kimatteta mitai ni

Kasanatta futari wa unmei tte shinjite iru yo

Kimi no egaku mirai ni

Watashi wa iru no kana

Onaji sora wo onaji omoi de

Miagete itai yo

Kimi to onaji mirai wo

Zutto issho ni mite itai

Onaji hoshi wo onaji basho de

Mitsumete iyou yo

Kimi no egaku mirai ni

Watashi wa iru no kana

Onaji sora wo onaji omoi de

Miagete itai yo

Tatoeba namida no hi mo

Hare no hi mo futari de

Onaji michi wo itsumademo

Te wo tsunaide arukemasu youni

Kimi to onaji mirai wo

Zutto issho ni mite itai

Onaji hoshi wo onaji basho de

Mitsumete iyou yo

Kimi no egaku mirai ni

Watashi wa iru no kana

Onaji sora wo onaji omoi de

Miagete itai yo

English Translation

If the rain had stopped

That day

I might surely have just walked past you

If the bus had arrived

At its usual time

I wouldn’t have met you

If that instant

Had been slightly different

We would have walked on separate paths of fate

I always want to watch

The same future together with you

Let’s look at the same stars

At the same spot

I wonder if I am present

In the future you imagine for yourself

I want to look up to

The same sky with the same feelings

Our ways of talking and acting

Are really similar

It’s like if we have always known each other

Mailing each other at the same time

Thinking about the same things

We might have been bound together by a red thread

We fit so well together, like if

It was decided by chance right from the start

I believe we are fated to be together

I wonder if I am present

In the future you imagine for yourself

I want to look up to

The same sky with the same feelings

I always want to watch

The same future together with you

Let’s look at the same stars

At the same spot

I wonder if I am present

In the future you imagine for yourself

I want to look up to

The same sky with the same feelings

So we may always walk

On the same path, hand in hand

Even on days filled with tears

And on sunny days

I always want to watch

The same future together with you

Let’s look at the same stars

At the same spot

I wonder if I am present

In the future you imagine for yourself

I want to look up to

The same sky with the same feelings

Naruto Shippuden Movie 4-The Lost Tower

Hikari ni Wa
By. Saori Hayami

No takaku noboru hikari,
wakitachi taru omo hi,
mamoru beki ryuu no michi yo,
shi na hasha su sora wo aori

Suna, kaze, hana koto mo,
saki hokoru ko wo no hi yo hana ni ma ichira

Naze ni tsutau hikari,
Ryuu no te mo tatsu ni wa re,
Hagishi hi no omo kage yo,
towaa no uta wo kokoro tsunaii

Ten, nan, ma to uto mo,
Moe sakaru mae no hi yo yami wugirisa ka

No takaku noboru hikari,
nakaruru toki kioku,
ayumu beki ikiru michi wo,
yue ni ikiru sora wo aori

Shitte Iruka?

This is a song which was sung by Queen Sara in Naruto Shippuden Movie 4-The Lost Tower. This song had been passed down from generation to generation of the queen of Ryuumyaku in Rouran.

In this anime, Naruto, Sakura, Sai, and Captain Yamato have a mission to renew the seal which was made by Fourth Hokage in Rouran twenty years ago. But, someone named Mukade try to break the seal. He absorbed the seal and made a great explosion in Rouran. Naruto and Captain Yamato were thrown to the Rouran two years ago, but they separated in different place. When Naruto opened his eyes, he heard someone singing near him. He saw a girl with a long red hair sang that song in tears. Naruto called her, but she ran to the door. Suddenly, two puppets army tried to attack Naruto and then the door closed in front of him. He tried to find another way out. When he managed to go out from that place, he saw many tall  towers around him. But, the puppets army come out again and attacked him. He ran and once in a while he used chakra blade to break the strings which was used to make the puppets move by its user. They were strong and they made Naruto hurt in his leg. Suddenly three masked ninjas came and helped him. One of them healed Naruto’s wound and asked Naruto to go from Rouran.
Naruto was confused because a ruin Rouran became a big city like that. Then, he looked to the city hall where thousand people in parade welcomed their Queen, namely Sara. When the queen came out, Naruto realized that the queen is the same girl he met who sang in tears. Naruto decided to ask her about Rouran. But, suddenly the queen was pushed by someone behind her. She fell in front of him and then Naruto saved her. After that, he met again with three ninjas who helped him before. They pulled out their mask and decided to tell Naruto something. One of them with yellow hair told him that may be Naruto is a person in the future who was thrown to the past time using space time jutsu. He told that there was someone else who was a future person came to the Rouran six years ago. His name is Mukade too and he tried to grab Rouran from the Queen Sara after her mother’s death. If  Naruto could defeat him, he could come back to the future. But, Queen Sara wasn’t believed that and she wanted to ask Anrokuzan (Mukade) by herself.

    That yellow haired ninja asked Naruto to protect Queen Sara. He gave Naruto a kunai with the seal on it. He said he could get to Naruto wherever he was. Naruto realized that a yellow haired ninja in front of him is Fourth Hokage in the future, but he shouldn’t talk about something happen in the future because it can change it. And then, Queen Sara met with her people and they asked her to return their family which was taken way from them. It was a rumor that there was a big weapon created in Rouran. Queen Sara found out that people who welcomed her in parade were just a puppets made by Anrokuzan. Queen Sara really socked because of that, but Naruto helped her and she finally decided to found out the truth of Rouran. They went to the source of the pipes in Rouran which was used to feeding the puppets with chakra, so they can move.

In the ground of Rouran, there was a factory. Many people were forced to work in order to create puppets army just like the rumor. Queen Sara couldn’t stand with it and stopped it with her power. But, Anrokuzan appeared and hold out Naruto with his puppets. He said that he was a person who killed Queen Sara’s mother. Queen Sara became so sad and Anrokuzan tried to kill her too, but Naruto stopped him. Naruto told Queen Sara to help the people out from that place. Namikaze Minato (Fourth Hokage), Akimichi Choza, and Aburame Shibi suddenly came to save them. With their help, people who were forced to work could go back to their family. Together with Queen Sara, they went to the central tower while Naruto and the others tried to stop the puppets monster which was Anrokuzan itself. But, Anrokuzan chased her and put strings on her just like his puppets. Naruto suddenly came and broke the strings. He gave his chakra blade to her and fought again with the monster. Queen Sara realized what she can do to stop Anrokuzan. She guided the people to go to the source of the Ryuumyaku below the central tower.

Akimichi Choza and Aburame Shibi tried to stop Anrokuzan from surface, but they failed and the monster chased Queen Sara to the ground. In that moment, Naruto used his Rasengan and made Minato socked. Naruto failed and Minato told him to go on ahead. Minato tried to find Anrokuzan’s weakness and he found it. Queen Sara and the others already arrived on the ground, but unfortunately the door didn’t want to open. It was only a safe place to protect the people from the power of Ryuumyaku. To buy some time, Naruto fought again with the monster. Queen Sara began to desperate. But, when she saw Naruto refused to give up on fighting the monster, she tried again to open the door. Then, Naruto’s chakra blade was shining and guided the way to open the door. Queen Sara and her people pushed the door and then it finally open. Queen Sara commanded the people to come in the room, the place where her mother’s grave and the place where she and Naruto first met. But, Queen Sara wasn’t come along with them. She said, there was something that she must do.

She went to Naruto and said that she would stop the power of Ryuumyaku. She went to the Ryuumyaku’s source, while Naruto fought the monster. But, the monster managed to the room where the source was. Naruto began to feel exhausted and couldn’t bring his power up. When Anrokuzan tried to kill Naruto, Minato came and saved him again. He said, he would lend his strength to Naruto. He created Rasengan for Naruto and he made his own. They combined it and created the Legendary Super Rasengan. Minato showed Anrokuzan’s weakness and with the Super Rasengan they could defeat the monster half to death, at the same time when Queen Sara stopped the source of Ryuumyaku. But, the monster still moved and tried to kill himself, Naruto, Minato, and Queen Sara together with the eruption of Ryuumyaku. The bridge in that room collapsed when Queen Sara passed it. Naruto and Minato tried to help her, but they almost fell too until Captain Yamato came and saved them. In order to save Rouran, Minato sealed its power and failed the eruption.

Suddenly, Naruto and Captain Yamato’s body were shining. Minato said that it was the time when they must go back to the future because Mukade had been defeated. Queen Sara didn’t want to forget Naruto, but she must do it in order not to change the future. Minato used his power to erase their memory. In the end he said to Naruto that he wish to have a son like him someday. He said that someday he would surely know something that he wanted to say. Queen Sara promised to protect her people just like what Naruto had taught to her. Then, they disappeared and come back to the future. Naruto said that he and Captain Yamato couldn’t remember anything. When they went to the surface, they met with a girl who had a red hair. She said that her mother is the queen who role Rouran. Although it vanished now, but her mother managed to save her people. She showed her mother’s treasure. That was a Konoha’s chakra blade. She said that it was given to her mother by a hero in her dream. When the girl left them, Naruto felt like she ever met with her somewhere, but he couldn’t remember anything.

In fact, that girl was Queen Sara’s daughter and Namikaze Minato was Naruto’s father. But, it still more time when Naruto found out that he was a Fourth Hokage’s son.