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Busy with the New Year’s cleaning over here. Quick coffee break after hosing down the balcony and washing the outside windows before we move on to the interior. Yesterday and the day before was cleaning the school and family business from top to bottom. Spring cleaning back home has nothing on New Year’s O-soji . Thorough.

Also: bought my first shimenawa (like the one pictured above) and hung it on our door. Domestic life!

Here’s a good bit from the Japan Times on celebrating New Year’s.

(via chikuri)