This was taken by Cheryl Poff and submitted for Discover Nikkei’s Nima-kai 2020-2021 Oshogatsu Traditions photo activity.

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It’s the osechi I made this year. Since we can’t have people over, I made osechi to go to everyone and we dropped it off. My mom’s chicken salad and deviled eggs are her signature so we had to stick it in. If I don’t do this no one else in our family will.