Piñata (English spelling)

Japanese: ピニャタ（英語表記）piñata

It is a terracotta pot filled with sweets and fruit, cut out pieces of colored paper and pasted on the pot to decorate it in the shape of animals or people. In Mexico, at celebratory parties such as children's birthdays and the 10-day festival called Posada that takes place 10 days before Christmas, this piñata is hung from a string and tugged on both ends to shake it, while blindfolded children play by hitting it with a stick. When several people hit it and it breaks, the other children compete to pick up the sweets and fruit that fall. [Ooi Kuniaki]

Source: Heibonsha World Encyclopedia, 2nd Edition Information

Japanese:

素焼きのつぼに菓子や果物を入れ，色紙を切ってつぼに張りつけ，動物や人などの形に飾ったものをいう。メキシコでは，子どもの誕生日やクリスマス前10日間のポサダと呼ばれる祭りなど，祝いごとのパーティで，このピニャタをひもにつるし，ひもの両端を引っ張って揺するのを，目かくしした子どもが棒でたたいて遊ぶ。何人かがたたいて割れれば，子どもたちは落ちた菓子や果物などを争って拾う。【大井邦明】

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