Traditional celemonies

Good day mate! Today, I introduce you about traditional Japanese celemonies during builing a house.

One is called "Jichinsai" in Japanese, it means ground breaking celomony, we ask the god of earth to have permission to use the land for buildings. We pray the god for keeping safety of construction.

The other is called "Joutoushiki", the ceremony of putting up the ridgepole. We show respect to the god of building and artificer, and are grateful for them.

When we have a celebration, we serve rice cakes to neighbors, throwing it out.

Do you have this kind of celemony in your country?

Introduction

Howdee! I'm Masakatsu Nishitani from "Credes", a company combinding an architectural design office with a construction company. We design and built wooden custom-built houses. I'm writing to inform you that we're starting this blog to exchange information concerning architecture, our works, building materials, design and so on. We would be grateful if we can exchange any information between your country and ours. Check our works in our web-site at http://www.comos-style.com/. We're renewing it in this month, and an Englis page is comming soon. Let's enjoy information exchange with us!