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Hi,...

markd@csl.sj.nec.com (Mark Dyer) writes:
> Don't the Japanese also eat noodles for special occasions like when they
> move ($B0z1[$7$=$P$G$7$?$C$1(J??) or start the new year. Something to do
> with noodles being long, so they are associated with longevity or maybe
> long good luck.

    You are right.

    * Hikkosi-soba --- when they moved. But not that in the formal habits,
      we have to give hikkosi-soba to new neighbors, although I do not
      follow this formalism :-)

    * Tosikosi-soba --- not the start of the new year; you have to eat
      tosikosi-soba while hearing joya-no-kane (large bells at the buddism 
      temples, rung in the evening or night of December 31st).  But I
      again do not follow this formalism and eat soba early in the
      evening (I get hungly!), or sometimes eat lamen.

Any othe "special cases" for soba?

							Yasushi Kuno