piece placed to block opponent’s check (shogi)

puppet

piece placed to block opponent’s check (shogi)(Harukoma/Harukoma)

New Year

Hariko (papier-mâché. A toy in which a horse’s head, made with a frame made of bamboo or wood, or a mold made of clay and pasted with Japanese paper, is attached to the body of a stick with a wheel at the other end. Children’s New Year’s plaything. The art of “kadozuke” (going from house to house with a harukoma) became popular around the middle of the Edo period (1603-1867), and is still practiced as a folk art in Sado City, Niigata Prefecture, and Koshu City, Yamanashi Prefecture. There are many dancing dolls, court dolls, and feather boards depicting children and women carrying harukoma.

新着・おすすめ情報

  1. Ryugenji Temple (Kameido, Tokyo)

  2. I was a junior high school student when I made up my mind. The determination of the fifth generation to run Japan’s oldest bar, Kamiya Bar.

  3. metal collar mounted between a sword blade and the hand guard

  4. wafer

  5. Customer information is written down in a notebook and shared with all staff. Ginza Mikawaya’s commitment to hospitality

  6. Odai-ningyo” is a doll made of paulownia wood with a Gosho doll on top.

  7. Zoshigaya Old Mission Building (Zoshigaya, Tokyo)

  8. Kawaramachi Inari Shrine (Kitasenju, Tokyo)

  9. We don’t stick to tsukudani alone. They are also introducing Western flavors and expanding their sales channels. The Challenge of Shimbashi Tamakiya

  10. Kimono can be re-tailored and reused as a haori or obi. Kimono is the ultimate SDGs costume.

  11. Hanamaki soba

  12. vertical or granny knot

  13. To make Japanese “tea culture” widely known. Flexibility of “Gyokuho-Do” to change with the times.

  14. Shiba Grand Shrine (the inner shrine of Ise Shrine)

  15. very young fish (esp. a konoshiro gizzard shad)