Greetings

1. How do you greet members of your family? (mother, father, older brother, younger brother, grandparents, etc)

My family is 5 people, but now, I live my house with my father and mother.
I always say "Ohayou, (Good morning) my mom or dad" when I wake up and meet them for first day.
I also say "Ohayou"to my brothers.


2. How do you greet people that are important in society?

If you do not do greeting, it cannot start communication, I think.
It is also beneath ordinaly decency.
Greeting is the lowest etiquette, isn't it?


3. Do you greet people from the opposite sex in a different way?

No, I do not do from the opposite sex in a diffarent way.
But I will do opposite way when I talk to older people.
I ues honorific words for older person.
I do not think greeting is not relation among sex.


4. Do you hug anyone? If yes, who and when. If no, why not?

Yes, I will hag for my friend or people who close to me.
I often do hagging when I meet them for long time.
But I will do hag every time when I meet my best friend.
In Japan, we do not have costom of hagging.
We will do hag among young people.(especially girl)

Greeting

Greeting will be able to connect communicate from person to person.
Greeting is very important act, isn't it?


・How do you greet people in your life?
・Is it different for different people?


↑　In Japan, we use honorific words when you meet older person.
If you say to your friend in the morning, you will say "Ohayou"
But you say to the teacher "Ohayou-Gozaimasu"
Of course I will say "Ohayou" when I meet people.



・Do you touch people when you talk to them? Why? Or Why not？

I will touch people when I talk to my friend, but It is depend on the person.
When I talk to my teacher, I have never touched for his or her body.
My opinion is if you close to me, I will touch you.
Touching is very friendly action, I think. So I do not touch everyone.


Anyway,

Nowaday, many young people cannot greet for people such as neighborhood or teacher.

It is very very sad...

When I was a child, my mother was strict about "Greeting"

So I think that Greeting is very important for us.

When I become a mother and have a baby, I will teach strict like my mom!!

Buddhism

Almost Japanese is Buddihism. Our daily life are affected by it.
So we may have Buddihism thought naturally.

Today, I will tald you 5 example about them.

First is "Itadakimasu" We say this word before eat meal.
We also say "Gochisousama" after eat meal.

We eat lives, like meat, vegetable and so on. We lost their lives.
So we say "Itadakimasu"

The second one is "bow"
Shake hands is the most popular greeting when you meet person.
But Japanese people do a "bow"
The reason why we do a bow because Japan is humid country in the summer.
So it is rudeness if you have damp hands and hold out them.


Third is Japanese summer event "Bon"
This event is your ancient may come back for you, and pray their soul in the middle of summer.
I am going to go my grandparents house every time with my family.

Fourth is some people has "Butudan" (a household Shinto altar) and priest come to your house.
In my case, priest will come my house every every mounth of tenth.
Because our important person was dead on tenth.

Finally, the fiveth is if you go to funeral, you must wear "mofuku"(black wear)
we have an image that black is bad coler
we also relate to "Moni-fukusuru"(go into mourning)


Buddihism minds are necessary for Japanese life.
We should keep those minds and take over from young people.