小正月

Pepper) is ..(.. day of the hope at the New Year (day of the full moon and old calendar January 15) at a small New Year. It is likely to be done on the solar calendar January 15 now. It calls like this while the New Year's Day is called the Taishou era moon. It has been thought the great remainder of the assumption of the day of hope the first in the moon before the luni-solar calendar of the China type is introduced. Among original pines even until this small New Year, even a small New Year, January 15 is "In the pine still. " in the Kansai area and the Kinki region.
There was a custom of eating the red bean rice gruel on the morning of this day. It is recorded to have eaten in 'Tosa Diary' and 'Makuranososhi', etc. ..old.. at a small New Year the red bean rice gruel. There is still a region where the custom of eating the red bean rice gruel before the length of Hidari remains in the farm village in the Tohoku region etc.It is often assumed that it is a taboo to eat the red bean (Or, it is food whole that does a red color including meat) for the period of a small New Year from the New Year's Day in these regions.
An event related to the agriculture of the wish for a good harvest etc. and a domestic event are centered for the Taishou era when a lot of events that face Toshicami and the ancestors' spirit are moon at a small New Year. It is busy in the pine and in the meaning that shows appreciation for the working housewife, there the provinces of woman New Year, too.