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@camelliakyoto@mastodon.social · 3 months ago

We're kicking off Setsubun season with 2 sweets from Kameya Shigehisa (亀屋重久), named after a famous phrase you will hear during the February 3rd celebrations...

鬼は外!🫘👹🚪➡️
"Oni wa soto! Fuku wa uchi!"
福は内!🍀➡️🚪😊
"Devils out! Fortune in!"

#wagashi #和菓子 #京都

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A sweet from Kameya Shigehisa that mimics the plump cheeked face of Otafuku (a symbol of fortune at this time of year).

Nao-san, in an oni mask, poses with one of her favourite tea bowls. As guests drink the matcha a face appears inside the bowl...a smiling Otafuku.

Painting of Otafuku scaring away oni.

Image thanks - https://ja.ukiyo-e.org/ — Painting of Otafuku scaring away oni. Image thanks - https://ja.ukiyo-e.org/

A kinton sweet from Kameya Shigehisa that resembles a red oni (with sugar horns).

#和菓子 #wagashi #京都

Camellia Tea Ceremony

@camelliakyoto@mastodon.social · 3 months ago

Tiger loincloths, roasted soybeans, holly and dried sardine heads, oni, a plump-cheeked woman, lucky directions and makizushi...
...this thread will tell you everything you need to know about Setsubun (節分)🤔

driving out demons
sweeping out beans...
now I sit cross-legged
鬼の出た跡はき出してあぐら哉
-Kobayashi Issa, 1822.

#Setsubun #節分 #Japan

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Nao-san, wearing an oni mask, munches on 'lucky' beans for Setsubun.

An actor dressed as an oni prepares for dancing at Rozan-ji (part of the temple's Setsubun celebrations).

Visitors pass through the mouth of a giant Otafuku mask at Kushida-jinja in Fukuoka during Setsubun celebrations.

A box of sugar-coated soy beans, munched on for luck at Setsubun.

Camellia Tea Ceremony

@camelliakyoto@mastodon.social · 3 months ago

Setsubun (節分), which falls on February 3rd this year, marks the beginning of spring in the lunar calendar.

Yoshida-jinja (吉田神社), Mibu-dera (壬生寺), Yasaka-jinja (八坂神社) and Rozan-ji (廬山寺) host the city's most famous celebrations.

#Kyoto #京都 #Setsubun #節分 #Japan

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Preparing lucky beans to throw into the crowd at Rozan-ji.

Collecting lottery tickets during Yoshida-jinja's Setsubun celebrations.

Camellia Tea Ceremony

@camelliakyoto@mastodon.social · 3 months ago

We're kicking off Setsubun season with 2 sweets from Kameya Shigehisa (亀屋重久), named after a famous phrase you will hear during the February 3rd celebrations...

鬼は外!🫘👹🚪➡️
"Oni wa soto! Fuku wa uchi!"
福は内!🍀➡️🚪😊
"Devils out! Fortune in!"

#wagashi #和菓子 #京都

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Camellia Tea Ceremony

@camelliakyoto@mastodon.social · 3 months ago

There are three symbols in particular that confectioners enjoy using for Setsubun...

1)💋
Okame (also known as Ofuku 於福 and Otafuku 阿多福) is a cheerful, plump-cheeked woman that has become a symbol of Setsubun. The character '福' (fuku) in her name means 'luck'.
#setsubun

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A sweet inspired by the plump-cheeked symbol Setsubun, 'Otafuku'.

Print of Otafuku.

Image thanks - https://ja.ukiyo-e.org/ — Print of Otafuku. Image thanks - https://ja.ukiyo-e.org/

Statue of Okame (Otafuku) at Daihoon-ji.

One of Nao-san's precious Setsubun plates features Otafuku tossing beans at an oni.

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