Tsukareru-chan sent me a BIG package for Halloween present! Thank you Tsukareru!
The most surprising thing of them was this!!
My family could not even cut it, so asked for help to neighbors!!
They were all screaming out , gazing at, and laughing!! The only person who could eat it casually was the smallest girl in that picture! She was CHEWING the cut pinky!! EWWW!
I shared a few kind of candies that Tsukareru sent me with them. It’s funny! It’s our halloween day. How about yours?
ハローウィーン Halloween in Japan
***heenai heenai *** 
She was brave!!
I was at a gathering a friend’s house this week, and they had the same one but a FOOT! A foot!!!!
The ankle ‘bone’ sticking out of the top! Liz brought it into the living room on a big plater with carving knife.
We finally ate it! It was good!!
Did you cut it? I did, and it’s so creepy!!
The skin is soft and elastic as real one and bone is hard as..oh, I don’t want to remember that feeling!
Liz was brave, too!!
No, I didn’t cut it!! I couldn’t do it!!!!!!
The photo of your children together is so cute and what I call a photographic moment as they look at the ‘severed’ hand candy. Thats very kind of Tsukareru to send the Halloween package for them awww they must be enjoying them right now arent they? The lil girl is brave to eat the pinky, today’s blog is full of trick and treat happiness!!
Have a great weekend.
The word “severed” is creeping me out!!
The kids themselves are so photographic and naturall, aren’t they?
The little girl has not understood why it’s so scarly yet, so she looked wondering why her siblings were afraid to eat it. She was so adorable!
Years ago we would get hundreds of kids going from door to door collecting candy, but in recent years there have been fewer and fewer trick-or-treaters. Now churches and schools host a Halloween parties or the children go to shopping malls to collect their treats. I used to love dressing up as a witch and decorating the yard with ghosts, headstones, and pumpkins, but it’s a lot of work for the 10 kids who might or might not show up.
>in recent years there have been fewer and fewer trick-or-treaters.
Oh, no..It’s a shame! It’s a good opportunity to unite with neighbors. However, the same thing is going on in Japan, too. The traditional event has been going down. They feel a bit burden to hold such a big event and celebrate personally. My kids don’t have enough chance even to talk with other elderly people except their grandparents. I guess these kids can’t develop their ability to make proper relationship with all generation.
Hi,hi,hi..
That’s funny. The hand looks ‘clean’ and ‘nice’. Anyway, how did it taste?
My daughter used to enter the halloween fancy dress contest at Toys’r’us store. She couldn’t win because she looked ‘too pretty’ for that contest. She dressed-up as a ballerina princess with pink tu-tu. Guess who win?
A ‘headless’ boy! I’ll give the credit to his mom who sewed the headless costume. It was quiet scarry, with blood and everything.
My daughter even refused to take photo with him! That was the last halloween fancy dress contest for her.
Hahaha! Headless costume?! I would like to see it!
The mom sewed it must be so enthusiastic to win the contest. I think the boy was very proud of his mom!
Pink tu-tu! sounds so cute! My daughter also loves to wear pinky and romantic dress, but there is not so many chance to wear like that kind of dress for the Japaese.
The severed hand candy tasted,,well quite good. Maybe, I should have shut my eyes while I ate it.
Hi Naoko,
I stumbled on your blog and I love it. I’ve always been interested in the Japanese perspective and your blog is just that. I especially enjoy the personal touch and the daily events that make up your posts.
Thanks for taking the time to give us a glimpse of Japanese life!
Matt
Hi 真秀-san
It’s very nice kanji for your name! They have good meaning,too.
I love to take a glimpse of foreign life,too! It’s much more interesting than to read travel guide books, isn’t it?
I wonder if you have any specific queries about American life! If you ever have a question, please ask me!
Wow, I grew up with Halloween, but never saw hands like that before! Ewww. 😉
I had to work late night on Halloween, but my daughter (2-years old) got candy 3 times that week. It’s tooooo much candy for her, and too much candy for Mom and Dad (me) to eat. So, we probably will give it to work.
It was fun though. 🙂
Haha…cute. The kids, that is, not the hand.