粽 チマキ

祇園祭りの粽

チマキは無病息災を祈ることに起源を持っており、お守りとして用いられている。

使い方はこの粽を玄関の入口上につるして、厄難を消除する習わしである。

ぎをん齋藤の”祇園祭”

皆さん間もなく祇園祭ですね！！

鉾と笛と太鼓で賑やかになりますので是非

京都でお祭りに参加してください。

ぎをん齋藤では今年から”祇園際”を開催致します。

店先には小物中心に展示いたしますので、

お気軽にお立ち寄りください。

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Allora, fra unpo` verra` una festa di L`estate che si chiama "GION MATURI"

e per preghiera di passare senza malattia nell`estate.

Ci aspettero` a Kyoto questo L`estate!!!

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朱色の袋帯 Una Cintura di Kimono

皆さんこんにちは。
こちらは地色が朱色で、五色波の袋帯です。
これほど色鮮やかな朱色の袋帯はなかなかありませんね。
ぜひ一度ご覧ください！！

Questo e` una come cintura di Kimono.
fondo e` colore Orsa, ci sono onde di cinque colori.
il disegno e` tipico tradizione dei Giapponese.
tessere sono una tecnica si chiama "KARAORI" che
rappresentano tradizionale "NISHIJIN ORI"

Grazie.

The Gion Festival

Kyoto's downtown area is reserved for pedestrian traffic on the three nights leading up to the massive parade. These nights are known as yoiyama on July 16 and July 23, yoiyoiyama  on July 15 and July 22, and yoiyoiyoiyama  on July 14 and July 21.

During the yoiyama evenings leading up to the parade, some private houses in the old kimono merchant district open their entryways to the public, exhibiting valuable family heirlooms, in a custom known as the Byōbu Matsuri, or Folding Screen Festival. This is a precious opportunity to visit and observe traditional Japanese residences of Kyoto.

This festival originated as part of a purification ritual (goryo-e) to appease the gods thought to cause fire, floods and earthquakes. In 869, the people were suffering from plague and pestilence which was attributed to the rampaging deity Gozu Tennō Emperor Seiwa ordered that the people pray to the god of the Yasaka Shrine, Susanoo-no-mikoto. Sixty-six stylized and decorated halberds, one for each province in old Japan, were prepared and erected at Shinsen-en, a garden, along with the portable shrines (mikoshi) from Yasaka Shrine.

This practice was repeated wherever an outbreak occurred. In 970, it was decreed an annual event and has since seldom been broken. Over time the increasingly powerful and influential merchant class made the festival more elaborate and, by the Edo period (1603–1868), used the parade to brandish their wealth.

In 1533, the Ashikaga shogunate halted all religious events, but the people protested, stating that they could do without the rituals, but not the procession. This marks the progression into the festival's current form. Smaller floats that were lost or damaged over the centuries have been restored, and the weavers of the Nishijin area offer new tapestries to replace destroyed ones. When not in use, the floats and regalia are kept in special storehouses throughout the central merchant district of Kyoto in the care of the local people.

This festival also serves as an important setting in Yasunari Kawabata's novel, The Old Capital which he describes, along with the Festival of Ages and the Aoi Festival, as "the 'three great festivals' of the old capital.

Una Festa dell` Estate

Il Gion Maturi o festa di Gion, prende il suo nome dal noto quartiere Gion, situato nel ditretto di
Higasiyama nella citta` di Kyoto Giappone.
Si tratta di una festa religiosa, nella quale si invoca e si prega il dio "Takehaya Susanoo=no=Mikoto"
venerato presso il Santuario Yasaka.
insieme allo "Jidai maturi" e allo "Aoi ,aturi" costituisce una delle tre piu` grandi feste religiose di Kyoto.
Si celebra tradizionalmente ogni estate a partire dal 1 Luglio per un mese allo scopo di calmare gli
spirito dei defunti invocare la protezione del dio sulla citta` di Kyoto perche` tenga lontano malattie e 
catastrofe naturali. E` caratterizzata principalmente degli eventi Yamaboko Junkou e Mikosi Togyo 
che si svolgono entrambi il 17 Luglio, giorno in cui la festa raggiunge il suo apice.