Today is the day before the calendrical beginning of spring ; (Se-tsu-bu-n) .
Men and women of bean-thrower at the Se-tsu-bu-n ritual threw beans saying
'Out with the demon and in with the fortune !'
at lots of shrine in Japan.
My husband is also a bean-thrower this year, so he had an invitation for the ritual at the 'I-na-ri shrine at Ta-ka-ma-tsu'.
If he pay 30000, he can throw beans with the famous singers or actors.
But he didn't want to attend it, so he didn't apply to it.
We Japanese have a custom of throwing beans and hanging burned sardine whose head is stabbed to the branch of Hi-i-ra-gi at the entrance of the house to brush off dishonesty.
Recently we also have a habit eating rolled su-shi without cutting to pieces facing a certain direction without saying a word.
The direction changes every year and this year's one is north-northwest. 
We ate the su-shi for lunch.
And after lunch we ate the beans too.
I'll eat grilled sardine for supper. 
