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O-Shogatsu
January 8, 2023 @ 10:30 am - 3:30 pm
Join in on the Portland Japanese Garden’s O-Shogatsu celebration.
O-Shogatsu means “standard month.” “Standard,” in this instance, means the standard a person sets during the first days of the first month of the year. This standard will then regulate their fortune for the rest of the year. Therefore, people are in their highest spirits and hope for the best. All ill-feeling and disagreeable recollections are left behind with the old year and a new chapter of life opens, replete with happy prospects.
During O-Shogatsu, people celebrate the start of a new year and hope for happiness and prosperity in the months ahead. At the Garden, this special festival is honored twice, once in appreciation for the members-only on New Year’s Day and then again on January 8th this year.
Traditional decorations and activities include hishimai (lion dance) at 10:45 a.m. and 11:45 a.m., presentations of a hatsugama, the first tea ceremony of the year, at 1:30 p.m. and 2:00 p.m., and a sumi-e, Japanese brush painting workshop. During the event, Portland Coffee Roasters will be serving free coffee to visitors.