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@camelliakyoto@mastodon.social · 3 months ago

🏊‍♂️🧢🏉SPORTS DAY🥏🥎🧗‍♂️

Happy 'Health and Sports Day' (体育の日 'Taiiku-no-hi')!🥳
As you might expect, we'll be celebrating with lashings of tea and sweets, and as the holiday commemorates the 1964 Tōkyō Olympics there's a subtle Olympic theme to today's offerings🏅

#体育の日 #healthandsportsday #olympics

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A Japanese flag inspired sweet (the flag sits on a red bean paste with a thin layer of jelly covering the round confection).

One of my favourite tea bowls. Purchased for the Tokyo Olympics it depicts mice holding the Olympic rings. The pandemic delayed the Olympics, so in the end it didn't take place in the Year of the Rat.

Colourful macarons hinting at the Olympic rings.

A sumptuous lunch box filled with colourful seafood and vegetables.

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@camelliakyoto@mastodon.social replied · 3 months ago

Nao-san is forever determined to show off how sporty she is in kimono...

...here she is navigating 'Sagi-ike' (鷺池 'Heron Pond') in Nara Park (奈良公園)🚣‍♂️

#体育の日 #HealthandSportsDay #Japan #Nara #奈良 #鷺池 #奈良公園 #NaraPark

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@camelliakyoto@mastodon.social replied · 3 months ago

The first 'Health and Sports Day' (体育の日) was held on October 10th 1966, the 2nd anniversary of the opening of the 1964 Summer Olympics.
Now celebrated on the 2nd Monday of October, the holiday is intended to promote sports as well as physical and mental health.
#体育の日 #olympics #healthandsportsday

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A firework inspired sweet with colourful balls of bean paste suspended in jelly.

Miho-san created this tea bowl. 5 colourful lines represent the Olympic rings, with chidori (a popular motif in Kyoto) flying on the interior of the bowl.

5 sweets in different styles, mirroring the 5 Olympic rings.

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@camelliakyoto@mastodon.social replied · 3 months ago

Some of you may be wondering why the 1964 Summer Olympics took place in autumn🤔
Well, unlike 2020's Tōkyō Olympics, organizers in the 1960s were concerned about the summer's heat and humidity, and so moved it to October (after typhoon season).

#Olympics #体育の日 #Kyoto #京都

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@camelliakyoto@mastodon.social replied · 3 months ago

Since 2020 'Health and Sports Day' has been rebranded as 'Sports Day' (スポーツの日 'Supōtsu-no-hi), the idea being that focusing on sport sounds a lot more fun and less regimented than the name 'taiiku' (体育 'physical education')🧐

#スポーツの日 #Japan #Kyoto #京都 #居合道

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@camelliakyoto@mastodon.social replied · 3 months ago

Some eye-catching morsels😋...

🎆Senbon Tamajuken's (千本玉壽軒) 'yozora' (夜空 'night sky').
🎈Colourful 'Kyofūsen' sembei (京ふうせん 'Kyōto balloons') from Suetomi (末富).
🛟Kiyome's (きよめ餅総本家) 'Fuji-dango' (藤団子).
🌈Macarons from Ladurée (ラデュレ).
#wagashi #和菓子

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Colourful 'Kyofūsen' sembei (京ふうせん 'Kyōto balloons') from Suetomi (末富).

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