『お正月がやってくる』(NF絵本)をおすすめします。

都会に住むなおこさん一家三世代の、歳末から新年までのさまざまな習慣をわかりやすく描いている。年の瀬になると、なおこさんたちは酉の市に出かけて熊手を買う。浅草のガサ市で買った材料を使って玉飾りや招福飾りを作り、門松やしめ縄と一緒に近所の人に売る。それが終わると大掃除をして、おせち料理を作り、大晦日には年越しそばを食べて新年を迎える。家族の仕事は工務店だが、お正月には獅子舞もしながら近所を回る。都会での年越しや正月の伝統が楽しくわかる作品。

6歳から/正月 年越し 獅子舞

 

It’s New Year!

This picture book portrays traditional Japanese New Year customs. The protagonist is Naoko, who lives in a modern city where her husband manages a construction firm. As the year draws to a close, they buy a special lucky rake from a shrine fair, and then some materials for New Year decorations at Asakusa’s Gasa-ichi fair. They use these materials to make traditional decorations, which they sell to local people. When they’ve finished that, their family thoroughly cleans their house from top to bottom, she prepares the special New Year’s food, and on New Year’s Eve they eat buckwheat noodles as they see in the New Year. And once the New Year has started, in order to chase out bad luck, Naoko’s husband and others put on the Lion Mask and dance to the accompaniment of drums and flutes as they go around the neighbourhood wishing everyone a Happy New Year. (Sakuma)

  • Text/Illus. Akiyama, Tomoko
  • Poplar
  • 2018
  • 32 pages
  • 24×27
  • ISBN 9784591160657
  • Age 6 +

New Year, New Year’s Eve, Lion dance

(JBBY「おすすめ!日本の子どもの本2020」より)

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