Saionji Shonagon
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Post by Saionji Shonagon on Oct 20, 2005 21:10:33 GMT -5
I finally figured out the name of the game depicted in that Momoyama period screen I like so much. It's called hanetsuki, it's often referred to as Japanese badminton and the once plain wooden hagoita (rackets) started getting elaborately decorated during the Edo period, and the game, or at least giving hagoita as gifts, are associated with New Years' celebrations. Some early ones found in an archaeological dig: www.tamagawa.ac.jp/sisetu/kyouken/kamakura/chusei/dougu.htmlSo, does anybody know anything about how one actually plays, beyond your basic smacking the hane with the hagoita? Saionji
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Post by madyaas on Oct 20, 2005 21:28:31 GMT -5
What i've been able to find is that it's just like badminton in that you bat small birdies back and forth, but it has no net. You can play alone (I guess like paddle-ball), or with two people. It is said it is a girl's game. I also read that whoever missed would get a black ink mark on their face. Whoever ended up with a face totally covered in black would be the loser (at least Japanese ink is fairly easy to get off of skin)
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Post by Saionji Shonagon on Oct 20, 2005 21:39:28 GMT -5
Except I have iconographic evidence of boys and girls playing it during the 16th century. tinyurl.com/aa7f6You come near me and my kosode with a loaded brush? I don't theeenk so, Sparky!
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Post by madyaas on Oct 20, 2005 22:14:26 GMT -5
Except I have iconographic evidence of boys and girls playing it during the 16th century. tinyurl.com/aa7f6Of course, it was a boys and girls game originally, and I should've mentioned this, but it seems by the modern era it was just girls who played the game. Few people seem to play it these days it seems. See, I'd throw down if someone tried to get an ink brush near me in my clothes.
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Post by tamayori on Nov 18, 2005 17:31:29 GMT -5
Normally nowadays hanetsuki is played by girls during shogatsu and Hinamatsuri.
I played it when I was a small girl at my aunt's with my girl cousins. Tho my boy cousins would try their hand too-cause the chance of getting ink on your cousin's face was too irresitable! We played during shogatsu-the han-eri was a gift from a relative in japan.
Yea, they do mark your face with ink if you lose-meaning if you miss the birdie.....I was better at it than my cousins- tho my older sister got the most ink on her face!
We were dressed in kimono, but the sizes were limited,(being heirlooms) and being that I was notta slim,svelte typical type like my cousins- i was dressed in hakama and kimono.(my grandmother said it was alright- since i was soo O-temba anyways. I think i was 10 at the time.
After the game-I used the leftover ink drawing doodles on butcher paper-my calligraphy was horrid, and my uncle laughed at it- but at least I got my name spelled right.
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Post by Saionji Shonagon on Nov 22, 2005 21:47:44 GMT -5
ourworld.compuserve.com/homepages/Rexhaggett/hanetsuk.htm"The first recorded reference to it appears in a book written in the Muromachi Era [1136 to 1573 AD] which states that during New Year holidays in the 4th year of Eikyo in the mid Muromachi Era [1433 A.D.] 'princes and princesses and court nobles and ladies enjoyed playing battledore and shuttlecock at the palace by dividing themselves into red and white teams.'" A tantalizing and confusing reference to hanetsuki having been played by courtiers. I've just fired off an email to Mr. Haggett (who seems confused about the dates of the Muromachi period) to see if he can tell me what source mentions the game. Saionji
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