Taisetsu (Greater Snow)

A seibo gift. (© Pixta)

Daikon-daki. (© Pixta)

Yukizuri at Kenrokuen in Kanazawa. (© Pixta)

End-of-year cleaning (© Pixta)

Sakaki branches for the kami (deities) (left); yuzuriha leaves and urajiro ferns. (© Pixta)

Shiro-wabisuke, a favorite flower for decorating a tearoom (left); winter camellia. (© Pixta)

Mori Seihan, head priest at Kiyomizudera, writes 戦 (ikusa, or the verb tatakau, meaning “conflict”), the Kanji of the Year for 2022, on December 12 at the Kyoto temple. (© Jiji); hataraku, a kanji meaning “to work” invented in Japan. (© Pixta)

A hagoita market. (© Pixta)

Raw oysters (left); kaki furai (crumbed oysters). (© Pixta)

Chijimi spinach (left); spinach ohitashi (boiled and soaked into bonito-flavoured soy sauce). (© Pixta)

Slices of salted aramaki-sake salmon (left); grilled salmon. (© Pixta)