食べ物について話そう！ – Osechi Food in English
Talking about Osechi in English is quite hard actually. Starting with Osechi itself which in English translates as traditional Japanese New Year foods.
Some osechi foods include
Kuromame (黒豆, black beans) means you will mameni-hataraku (マメに働く, work hard). It also connotes being healthy enough to work hard.
People eat kazunoko (数の子, herring roe) to be blessed with many children, and kurikinton (栗きんとん, sweet chestnuts stewed with sugar) are a bright yellow gold, connoting wealth.
Buri (ブリ, adult yellowtail fish) is considered lucky for promotion at work because it is a shusse uo (出世魚, lit: fish that gets a promotion, but actually meaning fish that are called different names as they grow).
Kobumaki (昆布巻き, rolled kelp with fish in it) rhymes with yorokobu (喜ぶ, be happy). Renkon (レンコン, lotus root) will enable you to look through the future because it has holes in it.
Ebi (海老, shrimp) signify old people because they have hige (ひげ, mustache) and koshi ga magatteiru (腰が曲がっている, are hunchbacked), so eating them is believed to impart a long life.
So next New Year’s if you have foreign guests, please explain to them in English why we eat these delicious traditional foods every year!
Tim
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