Katsuura Girl - Katsurame

…By that time, the legend that her ancestor, Princess Iwata, presented a belly band to Empress Jingu, who used it as a headgear, had been established, and it seems that female succession had been established. The Katsuura women who presented Katsuturi chestnuts were considered to be auspicious women and served in the military camps of warring lords, Toyotomi Hideyoshi, and Tokugawa Ieyasu. Throughout the Edo period, under the protection of the Edo Shogunate, they also performed activities consistent with their profession, such as offering prayers at celebrations for the common people, and in the late Edo period, they began to make Katsura candy and sell it as one of their livelihoods. [Amino Yoshihiko] …

*Some of the terminology that refers to "Katsura-jo" is listed below.

Source | Heibonsha World Encyclopedia 2nd Edition | Information

…そのころまでには，祖先岩田姫が神功皇后に腹帯を献じ，それを被物にしたという伝説も成立し，女系相続も確立していたとみられる。勝栗を献ずる〈勝浦女〉は縁起のよい女性として戦国大名をはじめ豊臣秀吉，徳川家康の軍陣にはべり，江戸幕府の保護をうけて，江戸時代を通じ，庶民の祝事に当たっても祝詞を述べるなど，その職能に即した活動をするとともに，江戸後期には桂飴を製し，飴売りをその一つの生業とするようになった。【網野 善彦】。…

※「勝浦女」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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