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Welcome to ケビン's English Room Podcast.
Hello, hello.
Hello.
So we're at a different setting today.
Yes.
Because we're expecting somebody special, right?
Yes.
Yes, yes.
That's going to be...
お楽しみ。
お楽しみ。
Yeah.
So...
Lovely.
Be excited for the next several episodes.
Please.
Guests will come.
Yeah.
Yeah.
This time it's a little bit of a different background how we got this person on the show.
True, true, true.
Right.
So, something special?
Yeah.
Yeah.
It will be a little bit different from the ones we did before.
Yeah.
Because, you know, in many ways, you know.
In many ways.
Right.
Absolutely.
So, maybe...
Yeah.
Right.
Right.
Very exciting.
Exciting, yes.
Very exciting.
Yeah.
日本の伝統行事の楽しみ
How was your week, man?
How was your week?
Did a...
Oh, yeah.
Did a Mame Maki properly.
Oh, yeah.
Did a Mame Maki.
Yeah.
Okay.
Did a Mame Maki.
Ate the Eho Maki.
Yeah.
That was Hitsubun.
Yesterday, actually.
That was last night.
Yes.
And drank some Fukucha.
Fukucha.
Is that a traditional thing in Japan?
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
Oh.
It's like the tea, but you don't use tea leaves.
Oh.
Instead of tea leaves, you use the beans.
The, you know, the beans that you...
You throw at the monsters, right?
Yeah.
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
You use that beans.
Oh!
Wow.
So, do you boil it?
You kind of...
And then extract the flavor?
Yeah, you can just put it in the Kyusu.
Uh-huh.
Oh, it's that easy.
It's that easy.
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
You just put it in and just boil more time than just...
I see.
Yeah.
I see.
It's really thin.
It's almost just...
It's like water.
Yeah.
Yeah.
But you feel the taste.
You feel the, you know, the smell.
I see.
I see.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Oh, okay.
And I ate the Toshinokazu no Beans.
Yeah?
Yeah?
Was that a lot?
Is it starting to get a lot or is it handleable?
Yeah, I mean, it wasn't that...
Difficult.
I see.
It wasn't...
It was just, you know, handful beans.
Yeah?
Yeah.
Yeah.
Yeah.
It wasn't...
But if it's going to be like 50 or 60, that's going to be a person, you know?
Oh, yeah.
Yeah.
Right.
I hope it's not, but...
Right.
Right.
I was actually at Tokyo Station yesterday.
Oh.
And I realized that it was the day for the Ehomaki.
And Daimaru, they have Daimaru Hyakkaten, right?
Yeah.
They have the Shokin Kona.
Right.
They were making a line for this one shop that was selling...
For the one shop?
Exactly.
One shop that was selling this fancy looking Ehomaki.
And I was like, I got time right now.
豆まきの習慣と影響
Yeah.
Well, let me line up and I bought it.
Oh.
Yeah, I bought it.
It was a...
I think it was like one of those really, really classic.
What was inside was a Kanikama.
Yeah.
Kyuri.
Yeah.
Like Tamago.
Yes.
Tamago.
I think one thing that was special was Anago was there.
Oh, nice.
Nice.
I think the shop was famous for Anago.
Anago.
So I guess they put the Anago in there.
Oh.
Yeah, it was good.
It was good?
Yeah, it was good.
Yeah, it was okay.
It was good.
It was good.
You like...
You faced to the direction probably.
What do you mean?
Oh, I did.
I did.
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
Oh, good, good, good.
That's right.
I did.
I did it.
You didn't speak while you were eating.
No, I didn't.
I didn't speak while eating.
Right, right, right.
Yeah, that's right.
Then you'll be good.
Good to go.
Yeah.
So I have good fortune this year then?
Yes, yes.
Healthy, lucky.
Healthy, lucky.
Peaceful, you know.
Okay.
Oh, that's cool.
That's cool.
Yeah.
I'm happy about that then.
Okay.
Right.
Yeah.
Oh, good.
Yeah.
I tried to buy the ehomaki, but I couldn't find it.
Anywhere?
At the nearest supermarket, like a grocery store.
They have to sell it.
Yeah.
It's like...
How can you not find it?
Really?
Oh, so it was like sold out?
I think so.
Oh, like you go at night or something?
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
This evening.
Still sold out?
What?
Yeah, it was like six.
That's surprising.
Something like that.
Yeah.
Okay.
So I just found the ehomaki set.
You know, the nakami only.
They were selling the nakami ebis and...
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
...and things.
So I bought that.
And I bought nori.
Uh-huh.
And then like rolled by myself.
Yeah.
Right.
Yeah, I remember that.
Yeah.
What do you like eat with the ehomaki?
Is it just solo ehomaki or do you like miso shiru it?
Yeah.
Some kind of soup.
Miso shiru or like a suimono is probably a perfect choice, I guess.
I see.
But yesterday I had gyoza with ehomaki.
Yo, I had gyoza too.
Oh, really?
Yeah, I had gyoza and chahan after that.
After that?
Really?
After that, yeah.
I mean, so I bought like a half...
I see, like a half-sized version.
Yeah, it was a half-sized version.
I was like, oh, I'm still hungry.
Like, yeah, frozen gyoza and frozen chahan.
Wow, what a coincidence.
Wow, the same sense.
That's right.
That's right.
Oh, wow.
So we had a kind of chuka kind of soup together.
But yeah, I mean, anything will be fine.
Anything will be fine?
Yeah.
All right.
Okay.
豆まきの影響
I feel like, you know, this tradition is some of the less serious ones that people just don't take just that seriously, you know?
Like, oh, it's okay.
It's okay.
Don't worry about it.
It's all good.
People are just really chill about this tradition, I think.
Yeah, yeah.
Yeah.
Because I know it's started and founded by one guy, one marketing guy in Osaka.
Oh, really?
Oh, is that so?
Yeah, like a few...
Oh, I see.
Yeah.
So it's not that much of a tradition.
Yeah, it's not like hundreds of years, thousands of years, things like that.
Like Hatsumode or things like that.
It's just fancy, you know, little...
Oh, I see.
But what I do care about are the kids that are frightened by the monsters that come into their houses.
Fathers dress up as the red monsters, giving the kids PTSD for the rest of their life.
I've seen that on television.
And I think that's completely devastating for the kids.
I can see in their eyes, just frightened from their souls.
I mean, is that not child abuse?
I mean, how is that okay?
Like, that's so...
How is that okay?
Ethically.
Yeah, under the name of tradition and culture.
Yeah, they're just torturing the kids.
That's scary.
Yeah, well, finally they beat the demons, you know.
Kids will beat the demons, so...
Oh, they do?
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
Really?
They throw the beans.
Yeah, I mean, but like most of the videos that I see that are on the news, right?
Well, the kids be throwing the beans, but it doesn't affect the monsters.
They just keep coming, and the kids just keep running.
Oh, really?
Yeah.
So they're supposed to like...
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
Damage from it.
Yeah, it's like you make them feel that they are kind of strong.
They can beat those scary things.
Oh, that's what's supposed to happen?
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
I mean, have you seen the videos that are...
No, I don't think so.
No, nothing like that.
Kids are just running away, you know?
Running away.
Oh, no.
Scared for life.
No.
It's sad.
Oh, that's sad.
Yeah, yeah.
Yeah.
伝統と文化の衝突
Right.
So ehomaki is like something somebody like, you know...
Hatsune?
Yeah.
Invention?
Invention, like a few decades ago.
But I'm not sure, like, mamemaki isn't like...
Maybe that's more...
More tradition.
More tradition, I think.
Because jinjas do it, right?
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
They do like a parade.
Right, right.
Right, yeah.
Like the bean-throwing parade?
That was on the TV too.
Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.
Right, so...
豆まきの伝統と影響
Bean-throwing and...
I guess.
Yeah, right, right.
So that setsubun is something really traditional.
Just like ganjitsu and things like that.
Yeah, right, right, right.
So that's tradition.
Ehomaki is just something fast, delicious.
Yeah, right.
It's an activity.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Alright.
Thanks for listening, guys.
Thank you.
Bye-bye.
