Uneme Festival

Japanese: 采女祭 - うねめまつり
Uneme Festival

...The Tale of Yamato records that Uneme, lamenting the decline of Emperor Heizei's favor, threw herself into the pond, and this is also the subject of the Noh play Uneme. In the southeast of the pond is the Kinukakeyanagi tree, where Uneme is said to have hung her kimono before drowning, and in the northwest is the Uneme shrine. Every year, on the night of the harvest moon, the Uneme festival is held with floating fan flowers in the pond. The shallow pond has been described since ancient times as "neither clear nor muddy, neither in nor out, seven parts fish and three parts water," but sometimes the water changes color to red. ...

*Some of the terminology used in reference to the Uneme Festival is listed below.

Source | Heibonsha World Encyclopedia 2nd Edition | Information

Japanese:

…《大和物語》に平城天皇の寵が衰えたことを嘆いた采女(うねめ)が身を投げたことが記されており,謡曲《采女》の題材ともなっている。池の南東には采女が入水するときに着物を掛けたと伝えられる衣掛柳が,北西には采女社があり,毎年仲秋の名月の夜に池に花扇を浮かべて采女祭が行われる。古来〈澄まず濁らず,出ず入らず,魚が七分に水三分〉と表現された浅い池であるが,時として水の色が赤く変化することがある。…

※「采女祭」について言及している用語解説の一部を掲載しています。

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