The New Year's card that
year, although it presumably confused our western
friends, didn't turn out too badly. And for the
first time, I used the traditional Japanese
hagaki size, a pattern I have followed ever
since ...
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The design, by the way, is of a couple of labels
pasted up on the wooden framed wall of a temple ...
a common sight here. They read '1987' and
'ga-sho', a standard greeting used at the
New Year.
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