Dec 26, 2025
Some decorative Pokemon Oshie Hagoita paddles (used for Hanetsuki, which is a traditional Japanese badminton-esque game often played around New Year's)!
They look really ornate and beautiful 🤩
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Some decorative Pokemon Oshie Hagoita paddles (used for Hanetsuki, which is a traditional Japanese badminton-esque game often played around New Year's)!
They look really ornate and beautiful 🤩
Kobe Maiko playing Hanetsuki 1908
A maiko (apprentice geisha) from Kobe, playing the New Year's game Hanetsuki.
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Some items of interest out at the Portland Japanese Garden in Portland Oregon.
Top left: the item in the Tokonoma is called a Sumikazari. Three charcoal logs for the first tea ceremony of the new year.
Top right: Traditional new years toys, paddles and shuttlecock for playing hanetsuki, and koma, spinning tops.
Bottom left: Kagami Mochi. A traditional New Year's display.
Bottom right: The lower gate at the garden as you enter the grounds onto which a shimenawa has been affixed. Placing items such as this on an entryway of a home, or in this case, a garden, transforms the entryway into a portal of good fortune and protection. The Portland Japanese Garden has Matsukazari, Shime Kazari, and Shimenawa festooning the garden in a verity of locations.
The garden also offers Mizuhiki wreaths for sale in their gift shop while they last. This years wreaths were extra nice.
I chose to frame the wreath I got in a shadowbox to protect it.
Year of the Rabbit!! 🐇
🦊 20 - 🐍7
🐍: I’ve lost…(I guess I’ll continue to eat this.😰)
🦊: Come on now, don't cry. Here, your reward for trying hard to beat me. Open up!☺️
🐍: Don't baby me, I just got dust in my eyes… 😣
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Antique embroidered shusu (satin) obi with auspicious toys in a basket.
Among others you can find here: kitsune men (fox mask), shishimai (lion dance costume), matoi (firemen pole), harukoma/takeuma (hobby horse), kokeshi doll (or more probably a paper based doll like this one), koma (top), Hanetsuki shuttlecoks and hagoita, and a yajirobe (balancing toy)
I hope it's not too late to say "Happy New Year" with 3 lords of Fire Emblem Three Houses?
This is the hanetsuki of Eagle and Lion!!
(Please give us Dimitri x Claude x Edelgard ending, InSyst... I'm so desperate for the happy ending for everyone now)