Daikan (Greater Cold)

Wakasagi fishing (left); wakasagi fishing at Lake Yamanaka, Yamanashi Prefecture. (© Pixta)

Sake preparation (left); inside a sake brewery. (© Pixta)

Wintersweet. (© Pixta)

Daurian redstart. (© Pixta)

“Harajuku for Grannies” (Jizō-dōri Shopping Street in Sugamo, Tokyo). (© Pixta)

Sumō wrestlers Hakuhō and Takayasu throw Setsubun soybeans at Naritasan Shinshōji in Narita, Chiba Prefecture, on February 3, 2020. (© Jiji)

(Left to right) Soybeans, an oni mask, and ehōmaki sushi. (© Pixta)

A yaikagashi decoration: a sardine head skewered on a stick of holly olive. (© Pixta)

Buri (left); winter buri sashimi. (© Pixta)

Mizuna (left); harihari-nabe, a hot pot with mizuna and pork. (© Pixta)