☆ Merry Xmas ! ! ! みなさん メリークリスマス! ! ! ☆

MERRY XMAS EVERYONE ! ! ! みなさん メリークリスマス ! ! !

Xmas coords!

Hellow guys! And happy Xmas everyone! I don't have so much time and actually it's a late post but better late than never, isn't it? I'm a little short in time right now (cuz it's my dad's birthday) but I'll not leave u guys with nothing but this greetings. This post is dedicated to christmas from my grandma's birthland! Here it goes!

✧ クリスマスデート・ (kurisumasu dēto - Christmas Date)! ✧

Japan is a country mostly Buddhist , as many of you know already, so why to celebrate a Christian date as Christmas? Well the answer is simple: Christmas isn't only an important date for Christianism but it became also a symbol of captalism and consumption.

The japanese answer for that? Making Christmas not only a consumption date, but also something very similar to ocidental Valentine's Day. It's quite different of what we know as White Day (バレンタイン デー), happens in 14th February and it's when women presents mans with chocolates, since Christmas there is the time reserved exclusivly for couples. Not only a date to present another but spend a really quality time togheter like dinners and love hotels (rabuho - ラブホ).

Christmas Theme Rabuho

✧ イルミネーション ・ (iruminēshon – Christmas illumination)! ✧

That's, in my personal opinion, the most beautiful (and less weird) habit of japanese people in Christmas. They usually make a very good effort to make their cities even nicer in this time of year. All the trees, streets, towers, buildings cover with shinny little lamps and all sort of colors. Just give the city a fantasy and dreamy look that I really apreciate. Here're some exemples:

Tokyo Tower

Christmas Eve is widely considered to be a night for romance in Japan, and what could be more romantic than going out and seeing the beautiful Christmas lights of the city?

✧ クリスマスケーキ ・ (kurisumasu kēki – Christmas cake)! ✧

As another different japanese habit in Christmas is the hight consumtion of what they consider a flavor proper for this holiday is a Christmas Cake (クリスマスケーキ). The most typical kind of Japanese Christmas cake is a shortcake with whipped cream and strawberries. Even in places like KFC you can find then, all adorned with Christmas themes and little Santas.

Regular Strawberry Whipped Cream Cake. Looks so yummy!

ロールケーキ (rōru kēki – Roll Cake) is also popular!

✧ KFC Chicken and Japanese Christmas ✧

Another interesting moment in Japanese Christmas is also the tradition of a food we can consider (and americans much more than anothers) very usual: eating KFC Chicken Bucket. But japanese people are really crazy about this idea. Some of them even order their chicken bucket months earlier as a kind of special Christmas dinner meal. People line up in front of KFC stores for hours just to have thenselves their buckets. Here're some exemples:

Who wouldn't like to line up for hours in front a KFC in Christmas Eve, right?

Another KFC orders in Japan. All looks sooo tasty!

And if you still are interested in this amazing coulture please come and check these sites:

NOTE: all this informations are not mine but I made a research and here are the links. And most of this pictures I took from tumblr.

Culture Japan

Puni Puni Japan

Japan Monthly Web Megazine

Go Japan Go

Japão em Foco 

(for my dear brazilian fellows!)

みなさん メリークリスマス ! ! !

じゃあ、またね!  
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