JAPANESE CULTURE AND TRADITIONS

Dondoyaki — Burning New Year’s Decorations to Send off the God of the New Year

Bonfires blaze across the countryside of Japan in early to mid-January each year

Dondoyaki. (Photo by suhasrawool via pixabay. No attribution required.)

Dondoyaki, どんど焼き, sometimes called Sagichō, 左義長, are great bonfires where communities gather to burn their New Year’s…