Our country is again inside a freezer as the temperature will go below zero degrees at a wide area from tonight till tomorrow...
I really hate it!!
この国はま～たまた冷凍庫の中に入りました。今夜からあすにかけて広い範囲が氷点下に入り込みます…
マジでイヤだぁー！！
And believe it or not, today was the the day before the beginning of spring ("Setsubun") according to the lunar calender of Japan... well only according to the outdated calender...
信じられんだろうけど、きょうは春の始まりの前の日（「節分」）。日本の暦によるとね…。まぁ古い時代の暦によるとっていうだけだけど…。
it's so popular nowadays on Setsubun to eat a thick sushi roll called "Ehomaki"...
you just close your eyes and eat all of it without stopping, without saying a word and making a wish...
you must point the roll at the direction where the god of good fortune "Toshitokujin" sits, which differs every year (this year it was the SSE direction).
A tradition said to be started by the wholesale merchants of Semba of Osaka, and revived by modern merchants selling seaweeds (which of course are used for sushi rolls!).
画像：最近は節分に「恵方巻」とよばれる太巻きを食べるのが人気だ…
目をつぶって、止まらずに全部かぶりつく。何も言わずに、願い事をしながら…
福の神の「歳徳神」が在する方向に太巻きを向けて食べる。この方向は毎年違う（今年は南南東の方向）。
大阪・船場の卸売り商人たちが始めたと言われていて、現代の（勿論、寿司巻きに使われる！）海苔の業者たちが復活させた。
lots of people waiting in line to get Ehomakis...
they all fell for the trick played by the merchants...
but it's not a bad trick... you have to play some kind of trick to do business...
and this trick was not poisonous like Livedoor's or Toyoko Inn's, right?
and most importantly, I think everybody's having fun!
写真：たくさんの人たちが恵方巻を買おうと並んでた…
業者たちの罠にまんまとはまったね…
でも悪い罠じゃないし…商売するためには何らかの罠は仕掛けないといけないしね…
しかもこの罠はライブドアや東横インみたいなのに毒々しくもないしね？
そして一番大切なのは、みんなが楽しんでるってことだと思うんだ！
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