Jan 1, 2018
あけましておめでとうございます
Showa Era Oshougatsu
In the background on the short table in the tokonoma is kagamimochi, a traditional Japanese New Year decoration with two rice “cakes” (mochi) and a bitter orange on top. This one also has a skewer of dried persimmons on top of it. The dark object on top of all and in front of the scroll is daikokuten, the god of wealth. The scroll, kakejiku, varied by season. The fan shaped object on the right is not related to New Years, but is a sort of dried mushroom (sarunokoshikake) used as an expensive decoration.
Photo of Ms. R by Mama Sasamoto, taken sometime in the mid 1960s at grandma’s house in Odawara, Kanagawa Prefecture.
(Scanned from an old print.)