{"id":5675,"date":"2026-01-27T13:21:52","date_gmt":"2026-01-27T04:21:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/oh-mama.tokyo\/?p=5675"},"modified":"2026-01-27T13:35:26","modified_gmt":"2026-01-27T04:35:26","slug":"a-seasonal-story-oni-demons-ogres","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/oh-mama.tokyo\/?p=5675","title":{"rendered":"A Seasonal Story: Oni (Demons \/ Ogres)"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Until <em>Setsubun<\/em>, our caf\u00e9 customers will receive a small bag of <em>Setsubun beans<\/em>\u2014edible roasted soybeans\u2014as a gift. This offer is available while supplies last.<br>Inside the salon, you\u2019ll find four <em>oni<\/em> masks. See if you can spot them all!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>What is Setsubun?<\/strong><br><em>Setsubun<\/em> is the day before <em>Risshun<\/em>, the traditional beginning of spring in the old Japanese calendar.<br>On this day, people perform a ritual to drive away <em>oni<\/em>\u2014evil demons, often imagined as horned ogres, symbolizing illness, injury, and bad fortune\u2014and to invite happiness into their homes.<br>The traditional chant is:<br><strong>\u201cOni wa soto! Fuku wa uchi!\u201d<\/strong><br>(<em>The oni out! Good fortunes in!<\/em>)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Japanese residential neighborhoods are usually very quiet, just like our place. On most days, shouting loudly might earn you a warning from the police. But on this evening alone, it\u2019s perfectly acceptable to step outside at dusk and call out, \u201cOni wa soto! Fuku wa uchi!\u201d<br>Your neighbors will simply smile and think, \u201cAh, it\u2019s <em>Setsubun<\/em>.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Winter has reached its coldest peak. Let\u2019s chase away the <em>oni<\/em> and welcome spring with renewed energy and good health.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Until Setsubun, our caf\u00e9 customers will receive a small&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":5676,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_themeisle_gutenberg_block_has_review":false,"_kad_post_transparent":"","_kad_post_title":"","_kad_post_layout":"","_kad_post_sidebar_id":"","_kad_post_content_style":"","_kad_post_vertical_padding":"","_kad_post_feature":"","_kad_post_feature_position":"","_kad_post_header":false,"_kad_post_footer":false,"_kad_post_classname":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[24,21],"tags":[39,78,77,38],"class_list":["post-5675","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news-and-updates","category-seasonal-stories","tag-culturalexperience","tag-oni","tag-setsubun","tag-tokyo"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/oh-mama.tokyo\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5675","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/oh-mama.tokyo\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/oh-mama.tokyo\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/oh-mama.tokyo\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/oh-mama.tokyo\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5675"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/oh-mama.tokyo\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5675\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5680,"href":"https:\/\/oh-mama.tokyo\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5675\/revisions\/5680"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/oh-mama.tokyo\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/5676"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/oh-mama.tokyo\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5675"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/oh-mama.tokyo\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5675"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/oh-mama.tokyo\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5675"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}