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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)
