How To Make Japanese Money Envelope

The longer you live a life, the more events you lot meet such as weddings. Japanese have dissimilar community for celebration so you may ameliorate know how to fix shugi-bukuro. 'What the globe is that?'? Let's beginning with what this is nearly.

Contents

one How to Prepare Shugi-bukuro
- 1.i How Much Should Goshugi Exist?
  - ane.1.1 Did You Know? (Numbers to Avert)
- 1.2 Preparation for Shugi-bukuro
two Lastly

How to Ready Shugi-bukuro

Goshugi (ご祝儀) is money given as a gift mainly for wedding in Japan which is in an envelope called shugi-bukuro (祝儀袋).

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How Much Should Goshugi Be?

You lot may exist thinking 'so how much should goshugi be?'. To answer this, it basically depends on a relationship between you and the person but here is some reference for wedding ceremony.

Friends		30,000 – fifty,000 yen
Work Related	Boss	30,000 – 50,000 yen
	Colleague	About 30,000 yen
	Junior	twenty,000 – thirty,000 yen
	Client	Well-nigh thirty,000 yen
Relatives		30,000 – 100,000 yen
Family unit		20,000 – 100,000 yen

Did You Know? (Numbers to Avoid)

Exist aware that in Japan there are numbers that should be avoided for the goshugi.

Odd numbers (any number that can be 'split' should be avoided {but a jinx}. Nonetheless, 2 and eight are OK since they could mean positive)
Four and nine (four refers to decease and 9 refers to suffer).

Then i, 2, three, 5, 7, 8, and ten tin can be used.

Training for Shugi-bukuro

First of all, you need to select a right envelope. Aside from for wedding ceremony, there are varieties of envelopes for different events. Envelopes with an upside-down-red-and-white ribbons are usually used for shugi-bukuro (red & white are lucky colors in Nippon). There are dissimilar versions depending on the amount of money yous give simply this one (below) would be standard. Your name should be written (make it a little smaller than the '寿' character on top). Information technology's available at convenience stores, 100 yen shops, volume stores, pretty much everywhere.

The shugi-bukuro comes with another envelope inside. Write down an corporeality of money you put in the front and your address & name in the back like below.

The amount should be written in kanji like '金 xxxxx 圓' but no worries, refer to the tabular array below. So the number written above (参萬圓) arrive three man yen (30,000 yen). No problem in Standard arabic also if yous are not Japanese.

Numbers	Numbers in Kanji
i	壱
ii	弐
three	参
5	伍 or 五
7	七
viii	八
ten	拾
Human	萬
Yen	圓 or 円

At present put the envelope with money in shugi-bukuro and close it. Fold the upper part in outset so the lower part faces up (another jinx).

Every bit a mode, shugi-bukuro should be covered past a cloth chosen fukusa to protect it from dirt etc until given at the nuptials reception. You could utilise a regular handkerchief instead besides. Here is a reference how to fold fukusa below. (It shouldn't exist a big deal since you give but the shugi-bukuro.)