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Our Junior High Students Participate in the Winding stream party at Kitano Tenmangu Shrine
On November 3, two of our junior high school students, Yugo Fujiwara and Ayaki Yamamoto, dressed in Heian-period costumes, composed and performed waka poems and Chinese poems of their own compositions at the "Kyokusui no utage" (Winding stream party) at the Kitano Tenmangu Shrine.
"Kyokusui no utage" (Winding stream party)
Kyokusui no utage is a banquet in which a cup filled with sake is poured into a stream in the garden, which is taken and drunk, and poems are composed based on the theme. Originally, it originated from the purification ceremony held in ancient China to purify the body by the waterside on the first day of the snake in March every year. In Japan, it was most popular during the reigns of Emperor Kanmu and Uda. In addition to poetry, various performances are said to have been held. Since this event is of Chinese origin, it is customary to use Chinese poems for the poetry, and Kyokusui no utage has been revived in the form of "Japanese-Chinese recitation," in which men recite Chinese poems and women recite Japanese poems for each theme, which is unique in Japan.
They were able to participate in the "Kyoto Confectionery Project" of the Global Challenge Program (GCP), which was held last year. In the "Kyokusui no utage" event, two of the eight poets are students, and each session is assigned to a junior high school student, a high school student, and a university student. Since this time they were junior high school students, our school was able to participate. The two students, guided by their instructor, had the precious experience of writing Chinese poems and Japanese poems on shikishi (colored paper) and tanzaku (paper strips), composing them, and presenting them to the audience.
Kyokusui no utage is a banquet in which a cup filled with sake is poured into a stream in the garden, which is taken and drunk, and poems are composed based on the theme. Originally, it originated from the purification ceremony held in ancient China to purify the body by the waterside on the first day of the snake in March every year. In Japan, it was most popular during the reigns of Emperor Kanmu and Uda. In addition to poetry, various performances are said to have been held. Since this event is of Chinese origin, it is customary to use Chinese poems for the poetry, and Kyokusui no utage has been revived in the form of "Japanese-Chinese recitation," in which men recite Chinese poems and women recite Japanese poems for each theme, which is unique in Japan.
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