[Happy New Year] I respectfully extend my New Year's greetings. I hope you all are enjoying a refreshing start to the new year. Thank you very much for your support last year. May this be a year befitting the Year of the Snake, which brings good fortune...
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[Happy New Year] I respectfully extend my New Year's greetings. I hope you all are enjoying a refreshing start to the new year. Thank you very much for your support last year. This year, too, our family will be flying... in a manner befitting the Year of the Rabbit...
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Happy New Year! I'm delighted to have safely welcomed the New Year in Hamamatsu in 2022, enjoying a refreshing morning watching the first sunrise of the year across Lake Sanaru. Just like last year, I was able to witness a magnificent Diamond Fuji sunrise on television, and my fortune slip was also just as beautiful as last year...
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Every year, sukiyaki makes an appearance on our New Year's dinner table! We prepare two types of beef from different prefectures: thinly sliced Hida beef shoulder loin (A5 grade), a type of Japanese Black cattle from Gifu Prefecture, known as a meat masterpiece, and beef from Iguchi Farm in Mikkaichi, Hamamatsu, raised in Enshu...
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As we welcomed the New Year, our family enjoyed a celebratory feast, lovingly prepared by Keiko, the mother of our friends, sisters Ayako and Nanako Shimizu (Nanako Matsui), along with our own homemade ozoni (rice cake soup) and nigiri sushi, accompanied by fine sake...
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At our family dinner table to celebrate the New Year, we enjoyed the Osechi ryori (traditional New Year's dishes) lovingly prepared by Keiko, the mother of our friends, sisters Ayako and Nanako Matsui, along with our own Ozoni (New Year's soup), and toasted with fine sake! The Osechi ryori consisted of Japanese kaiseki cuisine...
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Every year, our family has made it a tradition to spend New Year's Day relaxing and taking it easy! We only prepare enough Osechi (traditional New Year's food) to eat in the morning, so for dinner we're looking forward to sukiyaki! Speaking of which, we happened to be talking about Kyu Sakamoto's famous song "Ue o Muite" (Looking Up)...
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