Japan, the Place And the People

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" Young water," that is, water drawn from the well under the first rays of the light ushering in the new day and the new year, is used in preparing the tea, and the principal edibles are a special compound of six articles of diet, none of these being ever omitted, though they may be changed in the proportion of their amount, to suit the tastes of those at the meal.
These foods are the mochi, rice cake ; imo, potato ; daikon, Japanese tur- nip ; aivabi, haliotis ; goho, a sort of burdock ; kombi
...i, a kind of seaweed.
In order to ensure good health during the twelve months to follow, it is deemed necessary that a goodly measure of sake should be quaffed from a bright-lacquered cup. This part of the custom is said to have been introduced from China centuries ago, and to have originated there with an old hermit, who made it a practice to distribute among the villagers on each returning New-year's Day portions of physic, with the injunction that if it was drunk with sake it would secure for the drinker a hale and hearty body.


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