print email comment close Old Japanese Christmas and Samurai Santa URL: http://www.christmasarchives.com/wjapan.html Description: An "account of a Christmas unknown to Westerners - and to most Japanese too! Including an amusing account of Santa dressed as a Samurai." This article follows the observance of Christmas in Japan from 1549 to the present day, with examples of "mirror customs of European traditions." Originally written in Japanese by a writer for the Felissimo Christmas Museum in Hokkaido, Japan. Author: Okawa, Mariko Publisher: Maria Hubert von Staufer Library of Congress Subject Headings: Christmas -- Japan Holidays LII Database Information: Record 7480 created by Wendy Hyman on 12/02/2003 Last modification on 12/03/2003 Published: 09/21/2006   Funding agency: California State Library LII Item ID: http://lii.org/cs/lii/view/item/7480