Hello, Everyone - おはようございま!!!
I hope I'll manage to update this blog once a week. Every week I'll write something about culture and traditions of Japan (language, myths, traditional wear), and something about Japan nowadays (fashion, music, anime, manga).
On top of this note, you see the Cat of Luck - Maneki-neko (maneki - luckiness, neko [猫] - cat). Probably you have seen this before on some sticker on the shop door. It means something like "Welcome". It may be use too as piggybank (it also talisman for having more money). Usualy Japanese people put some figure of maneki-neko in front of their houses. It has got one paw (often left) up, to tell people "welcome". It must has got no, or very short tail. So the breed of the cat is Japanese Bobtail. In Japan the cat when it is bobtail cat, it is "lucky" cat. Cats with long tails are known as bakeneko (bake [ 化け] strange, evil - bakemono [化け物] monster, demon) evil and demonish cat. If you've got cat with long tail in the house be aware!
Next week I'll tell you why...
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