Posted by admin | Posted in Toys for Kids 1+ year | Posted on 21-12-2009
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As everyone knows, China has Chinese Zodiac animals, 2010, China will meet the “Year of the Tiger” in their traditions and customs. In fact, Japan also has Zodiac animals, the only difference is that China’s Zodiac is follows with the Lunar calendar, while Japan’s is based on the Gregorian calendar.
As the “Year of the Tiger” is just around the corner in Japan, some toys and decorations with the image of tiger begin to sale like hot cakes, there even are some Japanese go to the zoo all the way to have a photo with and a tiger, thus to pray blessing and smoothness in the coming year.
In traditional Japanese concept tiger could be used to repel evil spirits, tiger is an auspicious thing. As just under-go the global financial crisis, Japan is faced with problems caused by inflation, so Japanese is place great hope for the coming Year of the Tiger. The major toy makers in Japan have begun to produce a variety of tiger imaged toys, as well as to promote a series of greeting cards for 2010 with various tiger images.
In the above picture, a folk handicraft workshop named “Zhongshan Puppet Shop” in Yokote City, Akita Prefecture, Japan, workers are busy preparing “Yin Tiger” wind chimes made of earth, the tiger has small eyes, soft rings, which is looked cute and exquisite, and make people calm and quite.
The charger of the shop said: “Tiger is endowed by the power to bring prosperity and welfare, we hope the power carried by tiger can help Japanese people to drive the economic depression away”.
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