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Itotatsu's (いと達) beautiful 'nubatama' (ぬばたま) are named after the jet-black seeds of the hiōgi (檜扇 'blackberry lily').
Thanks to the seeds, 'nuba' (ぬば) came to be used to describe pitch black or dark things.
The seeds were commonly used in poems to describe black hair etc...
until dawn
I will wait for you
and not sleep
even if the frost
covers my pitch-black hair
居明かして君をば待たむぬばたまの
我が黒髪に霜は降るとも
-Iwa-no-hime (磐姫皇后 d.347), consort of Emperor Nintoku. -
It was customary for new brides in Shimada-juku (島田宿) to pray for pregnancy at Ōi-jinja, then show off their new obis about town. Out of this tradition grew a festival in which men (not women) paraded to show off gold-threaded obi hung from their swords!
The 'Shimada Taisai' (島田大祭 the 'Obi Festival' 帯まつり) takes place between October 8th-10th in Shimada City, Shizuoka Prefecture. This year will be the 111th Taisai.
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There isn't a huge variety of traditional black sweets in Japan, but 'kuro-yakko' (黒大奴) is perhaps one of the best known.
Sweet, bite-sized balls of red bean paste are covered with yōkan (gently flavored with salty kelp).Kuro-yakko were created by 'Shimizu-ya' (清水屋), a store in business since the early 18thC. The sweets are named after the 'Ō-yakko' (大奴), participants in Shimada City's "Obi Festival" (島田大祭・帯まつり), a regular event held by Ōi-jinja (大井神社) since 1695.
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Happy 'Black Day' (黒の日)🎉
Not a sad event, but rather a celebration of Japan's dye industry, established by the Kyōto Black Dyeing Industry Cooperative in 1988.
Black is 'kuro' (黒) in Japanese.
🖤September (9) = ku
🖤6 = ro(ku)