'Hatsu’ means ‘first’ and ‘moude’ means ‘to go to worship.’
Many Japanese visit a shrine on the New Year's Day.
Some wait in a shrine from the night of New Year's Eve,
and go to worship as soon as a new year starts.
The red arch in the above photo is called 'Torii(鳥居),' and this is a symbol of Japanese shinto shrine. (So Buddism temples don't have it.)
When we visit a shrine, many of us take a fortune slip called 'Omikuji (おみくじ)'. It costs about 100 yen to 200 yen (50p to 1 pound.)
The Omikuji I took this year is this.
It tells about my life, health, love, etc of this year.
This year, my Omikuji was good one saying that my dreams come true, I would meet a nice guy!! So I kept it with me.
If you pick bad one and are not happy with it, you tie it with a branch of the shrine.
It means you leave your bad luck there.
We Japanese love fortune-telling and trying to check our own lucks.
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