There are games we play during Oshyogatsu(お正月). They are some of the fun things we do in Japan in the winter. Oshyogatsu means originally the first month of a year, January in sum, but most Japanese are thinking that it is only January 1th, 2th, 3th. Oshyogatsu is the day in which the new year is celebrated , but Japanese treat Oshyogatu as the first three days in January. I think that the reasons which Japanese have these ideas is to be tired of continuing the significiant days and to be less thankful for long significiant days.
There are games we play during Oshyogatsu like Takoage[凧揚げ(kite)], Komamawashi[こま回し(spinning top), Karuta[かるた(japanese cards)], Fukuwarai(福笑い), etc. Fukuwarai is a game that we enjoy making a funny face. It is played by blindfolding a person and having that person drop parts of the face, such as the mouth, nose, eyes, etc, onto an outline of the face of Japanese traditional character Otafuku(阿多福).
There are games we play during Oshyogatsu like Takoage[凧揚げ(kite)], Komamawashi[こま回し(spinning top), Karuta[かるた(japanese cards)], Fukuwarai(福笑い), etc. Fukuwarai is a game that we enjoy making a funny face. It is played by blindfolding a person and having that person drop parts of the face, such as the mouth, nose, eyes, etc, onto an outline of the face of Japanese traditional character Otafuku(阿多福).
