Japanese festivals
Special printing devices are popular,
especially among people who practice crafts. Software also lets artists create their own
designs and output them using their computer's color printer. Because a gregarious individual
might have hundreds to write, print shops offer a wide variety of sample postcards with short
messages so that the sender has only to write addresses. Even with the rise in popularity of
email, the nengaj remains very popular in Japan.
Conventional nengaj greetings include:
kotoshi mo yoroshiku o-negai-shimasu (?) (I hope for your favour again in the
coming year)
(shinnen) akemashite o-medet-gozaimasu (()?) (Happiness to you on the
dawn [of a New Year])
kinga shinnen (?) (Happy New Year)
shoshun (?) (literally "early spring")
On New Year's Day, Japanese people have a custom of giving money to children. This is
known as otoshidama (, otoshidama?). It is handed out in small decorated envelopes called
annaabi.ee 
