謹賀新年

あけましておめでとうございます。

去年も大変お世話になりました。

今年もどうぞ宜しくお願い申し上げます。

 "ご縁を結ぶ"、"七転び八起き"のイメージで描きました。

My illustration "縁結びねずみ (Fortune-rat)"   (01.2020)

皆様にとってご縁に恵まれる、素晴らしい一年となりますようにお祈り申し上げます✨

A happy new year!

The Japanese Zodiac is the old system used to tell time and directions.

It uses 12 animals instead of numbers. 《the Rat, the Ox, the Tiger, the Rabbit, the Dragon, the Snake (Serpent), the Horse, the Ram, the Monkey, the Rooster, the Dog, and the Boar》

According to a folk tale, the order of the twelve zodiac signs was decided by which animal gave its new year’s greetings to the God first.

Nowadays, we use the same animals to signify the year. It is the year of the rat this year.