At the workshop of Chinjuen, a plant shop in Osaka Prefecture, people are busy shipping kadomatsu, decorations placed at entrances and gates for the New Year. Kadomatsu are said to be a symbol to ...

(Japanese original by Tatsuya Onishi, Osaka Photo Department) In Photos: Japan's traditional 'Kadomatsu' decorations ready for New Year ...

This year, volunteers filled more than 1,300 orders before Christmas ... and decorating each ornament with pine and plum flowers in specific arrangements. The Kadomatsu’s three elements are ...

Get Hawaii’s latest morning news delivered to your inbox, sign up for News 2 You Kadomatsu are popular in Japanese culture as decorations to bring in good luck or pay respects to ancestors.

Frederik Meijer Gardens & Sculpture Park Horticulturist Mandi Stade shows off the art of Japanese floral arrangements called Ikebana and Kadomatsu ... White are the basic Christmas colors.

There is a Mickey Mouse-motif kadomatsu (1,500 yen), a decoration made from bamboo and pine sprigs set outside Japanese households to welcome in healthy harvest and blessings. There are also ...

LIHU‘E — Kadomatsu, one of the more familiar New Year’s decorations, are now on sale at the Hawai‘i Government Employees Association offices on Aikahi Street in Lihu‘e. It has been more ...