Kemari - Kemari

Japanese: 蹴鞠 - けまり

〘 noun 〙① A ball played by kicking. Made from tanned deerskin, it is seven or eight inches (about 21-24 centimeters) in diameter. A game. ※Jikyoushu (1245) "Kemari" ※Fusinjojo (1403) "Their young descendants were given a poem on a paper and a kemari."② A game played mainly at the Imperial Court and among nobles since ancient times. Usually eight people wear leather shoes and kick a deerskin ball with the top of their feet, passing it around without letting it drop to the ground. Competitors competed not only on the number of kicks they could make, but also on the grace of the ball's trajectory and the kicker's posture. It was usually performed in a garden called a kikutsubo or kakare , measuring seven and a half ken (about 14 meters) square, with a cherry tree planted in the northeast corner, a willow in the southeast, a maple in the southwest , and a pine in the northwest. During the Kamakura period, around the time of Emperor Gotoba, it became systematized, and there were schools such as the Naniwa school and the Asukai school, but the Asukai family, whose founder was Gakyo, became mainstream throughout the Muromachi and Edo periods, and flourished as the Shogun's master's family. Shuukiku. *From the story book Harubukuro (1777), Jiji: "The origins of kemari lie in the nobles of Kyoto called the Asakai."

Shu- Kikushiu... [Kemari]

〘Noun〙 = Kemari (Kemari ball) ※Family tradition (around 760) Part 1 "As he passed by the kemari courtyard, Nakano Oe, wearing his leather shoes, let _{the ball} fall." ※Taiheiki (late 14th century) Part 13 "In the midst of the singing, dancing, and kemari (Kemari ball) , a skilled archer and horseman was called in." [Hanshu - Toho Shuoden]

Mariko Yu [Kemari]

〘Collocation〙 Playing kemari (football) . ※Ishiyamadera Yogacara Theory, early Heian period (around 850) 23 "The so-called massage, clapping , throwing stones, and jumping over things."

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Japanese:

〘名〙① 蹴って遊ぶまり。鹿のなめし革で作った直径七、八寸（約二一～二四センチメートル）のもの。しゅうきく。※字鏡集（1245）「毱ケマリ」※不審条々（1403）「おさなき御子孫達に、歌の短冊と蹴鞠をもたせ申され候て」② 古代以来、主に朝廷、公家の間で行なわれた遊戯。通常八人が革の沓(くつ)をはいて、鹿革のまりを足の甲でけり上げ、地に落とさないように受け渡す。蹴る回数の多少を競うとともに、まりの軌跡や蹴手の姿勢の優美をも競った。普通、鞠壺(きくつぼ)、または懸(かかり)と称する七間半（約一四メートル）四方の東北の隅に桜、東南に柳、西南に楓(かえで)、西北に松を植えた庭で行なわれた。鎌倉時代、後鳥羽院の頃に体系化されるようになり、難波流、飛鳥井流などの流派があったが、雅経を始祖とする飛鳥井家が室町以後江戸時代を通じて主流となって、将軍家御師範家として栄えた。しゅうきく。※咄本・春袋（1777）字知「なんと、けまりといふ事は、京都のあさかいといふ公家衆が元根だ」