Kayama Festival - Kayama Festival

...Mosquito poles, mosquito nets, and mosquito slings are often mentioned in waka and haiku poems, and they are an inseparable part of Japanese life from spring to autumn. Mosquito nets in particular have become a necessity since the early modern period, and in villages from Kyushu to the Chubu and Kanto regions, there was a custom called Kayamatsuri, in which women would make them together as a labor exchange, and when they were finished, they would gather together and eat rice cakes. This was said to be a major task for men, as it was the construction of a house....

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Source | Heibonsha World Encyclopedia 2nd Edition | Information

…和歌，俳句などにも蚊柱，蚊帳（かや），蚊やりなどを詠じたものが多く，日本の春から秋までの生活と切り離せぬ風物であった。ことに蚊帳は近世以後生活必需品として普及し，九州から中部･関東地方の村にはゆい，すなわち労力交換の共同作業で女がつくり，仕上がると集まって餅を共食するカヤマツリという習慣があった。これは男の家づくりに当たる大仕事だという。…

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