How many Nengajo the Japanese send? on Average
New year’s cards from Japan.Do you send a new year’s card?
Sending a Summer greeting is one of Japanese customs, Unfortunately, the trend is becoming less and fewer people send it.
On the other hand, sending a new year’s card is still alive and some people use e-mails or text messages for a new year’s card but it is a beautiful culture of Japan just sending Season’s greeting.
January 1st
January 1 is a holiday but only post office delivery people work harder than usual. More part-time students got hired in order that new year’s cards are to be delivered on January first. They are the busiest people in Japan. Getting their new year’s cards delivered on that day is important. Many people try hard to their cards done. I was one of the last-minute people.
Nengajo and its history
It was used to be handwritten, then companies started to order printing new year’s cards to print shops. Then a homemade printing machine appeared on the market. Having one enables individuals to print new year’s cards. It became so popular in the 1980s. That was an innovation!
Home-printed cards dominated for a while. However, because of new technology, the younger generation began to send new year’s greetings via text among friends and family. Though the Japanese still send new year’s cards. That is why the post offices hire a lot of part-timers and encourage us to postcards before 25th so that they will be delivered on January 1st.
Internet services
Thanks to IT, the post office has provided many new services on a new year’s card. Also, the post office has an internet shop and offer printing services. It is fun to read a new year’s card thinking of the person’s face.
Nengajo I got from Japan soon after I immigrated to the eU.S.
My memories
As an adult, the more people I met and work with, the more new year’s cards I sent. Sending new year’s cards sometimes seemed to be a job. However, the moment while I was writing a message, I could think of the person. As a child, I wrote to teachers and friends trying hard not to make any mistakes in the border to make a perfect new year card.
We expect a new year’s card to us on January first.
I received a Japanese style new year’s cards from Japan since I immigrated to the U.S. They made me feel at home and brought a taste of a new year in Japan. ありがとうArigatou！
is about 45 (40-5 )
The younger is less 20’s average less than 20 cards The numbers are getting increase 50’s more than 50cards
I just add that at the age of ’70s or ’80s, many people send the last Nengajo to inform them that they are old enough to excuse writing cards. Receiving a new yea’s card tells us that they are fine and if I did not send it, I have to write to let them know I am fine and I am glad to know they are fine. It is a card with celebration and personal messages.
Just like Christmas cards/ holiday greeting cards! Why don’t you write a new year’s card?
Typical greetings
あけましておめでとうございます。
今年もよろしくお願いします。
ご家族の皆様のご健康とご多幸をお祈りします。
元旦 means January 1st
There are some variations to whom you send. more formal we use Kanji more. and change codes.
謹んで新春のお喜びを申し上げます
旧年中は大変お世話になりありがとうございました
本年もよろしくお願い申し上げます
We add images and pictures to celebrate the new year.
For example, the Chinese Zodiac of the year. 2021 is the year of Ox.
Auspicious motifs and traditional themes of natural beauty in Japanese aesthetics. Mt. Fuji, Sunrise, Shochikubai; Pine Bamboo, and plum
Would you like to make one? I will show you in this video.
To you あけまして おめでとうございます
今年もよろしくお願いします。
今年は明るく希望に満ちた年でありますように Wishing you happiness and health! May the new year be filled with hope and safety.
皆様の安全と幸せをお祈りします。
2021年元旦 石原意子
