Hagoita

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Hagoita-kazari
Girls playing Hanetsuki with hagoita bats. Colored photography by Kusakabe Kimbei

A hagoita ( Japanese 羽 子 板 ; feather board ) is a Japanese wooden bat that was originally used to play hanetsuki ( 羽 根 突 き ), a shuttlecock- like game that was often played by girls on the Japanese New Year .

During the Edo period , lavishly decorated Hagoita ( 羽 子 板 飾 り , Hagoita-kazari ) were given away to celebrate the birth of a girl, from which the custom arose at New Year's families who had had a girl to give such a Hagoita as a good luck charm.

In the meantime, the Hagoita has become a pure art object on which images of people ( kabuki actors, athletes, etc.) or fictional ( anime ) characters are depicted, either painted or made of fine fabrics .

Every year before the New Year, the Sensō-ji Temple in Tokyo organizes the traditional "Hagoita Market" ( 羽 子 板 市 , Hagoita Ichi ) on which a variety is offered.

exhibition

Web links

Commons : Category: Hagoita  - album with pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Hagoita-Ichi. Japan National Tourism Organization, accessed August 18, 2015 .
  2. ↑ Fairytale motifs and Japanese lucky charms in FAZ from July 11, 2014, page 44